US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on March 18 for "Tissue culture platform having multiple well chambers fluidically coupled via microfluidic channels and selector valves" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,675, issued on March 18, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Tissue culture platform having multiple well chambers fluidically coupled via microfluidic channels and selector valves" was invented by Hunter B. Rogers (Chicago), Teresa K. Woodruff (Chicago), Ji-Yong Julie Kim (Evanston, Ill.) and Hannes Marcus Campo (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue culture platforms that may be configured for tissue culture or biological cell culture, and methods for use thereof, are described. In general, the tissue culture platforms include multiple well chambers that are fluidically coupled by one or more ...