US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS on June 3 for "Elastically deformable components and assemblies for use in cellular assays" (Arkansas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,903, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Elastically deformable components and assemblies for use in cellular assays" was invented by Kartik Balachandran (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Nasya Moriah Sturdivant (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides elastic assemblies used to model tissues or organs of interest. In one embodiment, detailed herein, the assemblies are designed to model the blood brain barrier following a traumatic brain injury. The present invention also provides elastic membranes on which the assemblies are built, kits...