US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 14 for "Multicellular integrated brain tissue in neurological diseases" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,987, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multicellular integrated brain tissue in neurological diseases" was invented by Li-Huei Tsai (Cambridge, Mass.), Joel Blanchard (Arlington, Mass.), Alice Stanton (Boston), Adele Bubnys (Cambridge, Mass.) and Robert S. Langer (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides, in some embodiments, in vitro brain (miBRAIN) having functional and structural properties of in vivo brain as well as methods of identifying compounds capable of influencing brain function."

The patent was filed on Aug. 27, 2021, under A...