ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,460, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
"Therapeutic hydrogel device" was invented by Thuy Tram Dang (Singapore), Yang Chen (Singapore), Tri Dang Nguyen (Singapore) and Yicong Zuo (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to a therapeutic hydrogel device. More particularly, the present invention describes various embodiments of a hydrogel macrodevice, such as a planar hybrid hydrogel macrodevice that can achieve spatially controlled distribution of microtissues and support establishment of intra-device vasculature for enhanced cell survival, and ind...