US Patent Issued to National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University, Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology on May 27 for "Cell-containing hydrogel body and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,581, issued on May 27, was assigned to National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University (Yokohama, Japan) and Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (Ebina, Japan).

"Cell-containing hydrogel body and method for producing same" was invented by Junji Fukuda (Yokohama, Japan) and Tatsuto Kageyama (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a cell-containing hydrogel body and a method of producing the same, which enable simple and effective control of the size of a boundary surface for an interaction between cells. The method of producing a cell-containing hydrogel body includes: forming, und...