ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,838, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multiwell dynamic model for a tumor-immune microenvironment" was invented by Jeffrey Borenstein (Newton, Mass.), Nathan Moore (Canton, Mass.), Daniel Doty (Arlington, Mass.), Timothy Haggerty (Concord, Mass.), Joseph Charest (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Alla Gimbel (Medford, Mass.), Vienna Mott (Cambridge, Mass.), Brett Isenberg (Newton, Mass.), Hesham Azizgolshani (Belmont, Mass.), Brian Cain (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mark Mescher (West Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic device for modeling a tumor-immune microenvir...