ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,362, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH (Gottingen, Germany).
"Cell based shear stress sensor" was invented by Samin Akbari (Lincoln, Mass.), Ann-Cathrin Leroux (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Taehong Kwon (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), Christoph Zehe (Ehingen, Germany) and David Pollard (Stow, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules, comprising a functional mammalian EGR-1 (early growth response protein 1) promoter region that is operatively linked to a gene encoding a fluorescent protein and controls expression of said gene. The present invention further relates...