US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on March 11 for "Bi-layer multi-well cell culture platform" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,190, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Md.).

"Bi-layer multi-well cell culture platform" was invented by Jonathan R. Coppeta (Windham, N.H.), Joseph L Charest (Cambridge, Mass.), Else M. Vedula (Brookline, Mass.), Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Newton, Mass.), Abigail June Spencer (Boston) and Brett C. Isenberg (West Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems described herein provide a cell culture platform with an array of tissue modeling environments and dynamic control of fluid flow. The cell culture platform includes an array of wells that are fluidically c...