ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,082, issued on March 4, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Cell culturing materials" was invented by Lucas Johannes Anna Maria Beckers (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Jan Cornelis Kriege (Mierlo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material for binding to a cell culturing protein is disclosed. The material contains a bulk-modified elastomer comprising a plurality of fatty acid moieties covalently bound to the elastomer bulk, wherein the carboxylic acid groups of said moieties are available to provide said binding. Also disclosed are a fluidic device module, a cell culturing scaffold, a fluidic d...