US Patent Issued to Kyushu University National University on May 27 for "Culture substrate, method for manufacturing culture substrate, and culturing method and culturing device for stem cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,601, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kyushu University National University Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Culture substrate, method for manufacturing culture substrate, and culturing method and culturing device for stem cell" was invented by Satoru Kidoaki (Fukuoka, Japan), Kousuke Moriyama (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ebata (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a culture substrate for culturing stem cells, the culture substrate including a surface portion having: soft regions that extend side by side along a plurality of directions intersecting each other; and a plurality of stiff regions compar...