US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Oct. 14 for "Cell scaffold comprising an electronic circuit" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,973, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Cell scaffold comprising an electronic circuit" was invented by Jia Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Kewang Nan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Qiang Li (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to nanoscale wires and nanoelectronics, which in some aspects may be embedded in biological structures, such as tissues, organoids, organs, organisms, and the like. For example, one aspect is generally directed to stretchable cell scaffolds, which may be connected to electrical circuits. In some cases, a biologica...