ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,167, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Scaffold material for cell culture and cell culture container" was invented by Yuuhei Arai (Osaka, Japan), Nobuhiko Inui (Saitama, Japan), Satoshi Haneda (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroki Iguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cell culture scaffold capable of allowing cell masses to be formed easily and efficiently. A cell culture scaffold according to the present invention includes a substrate; and a protrusion formed by patterning in a pattern of a dot or a line on the substrate, wherein the protrusion contains a synthetic resin, the...