ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,646, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California and CELLDOM Inc..

"Device and method for cell-based drug screening" was invented by Eugene Tkachenko (Del Mar, Calif.), Natalia Tkachenko (Del Mar, Calif.), Edgar Gutierrez (Spring Valley, Calif.) and Alexander Groisman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and compositions for cell-based drug screening with high-density arrays of conical microwells and slow-drug-release beads."

The patent was filed on Oct. 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/497,955.

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