US Patent Issued to EMULATE, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Jan. 28 for "Development of spinal cord on a microfluidic chip" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,253, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EMULATE INC. (Boston) and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"Development of spinal cord on a microfluidic chip" was invented by S.Jordan Kerns (Reading, Mass.), Norman Wen (West Roxbury, Mass.), Carol Lucchesi (Westwood, Mass.), Christopher Hinojosa (Cambridge, Mass.), Jacob Fraser (Somerville, Mass.), Geraldine Hamilton (Cambridge, Mass.), Gad Vatine (Los Angeles), Samuel Sances (Santa Monica, Calif.), Clive Svendsen (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Daniel Levner II (Brookline, Mass.) and Dhruv Sareen (Porter Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to culturing ...