US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for modeling veins and associated blood vessel components" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,622, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Systems and methods for modeling veins and associated blood vessel components" was invented by Abhishek Jain (Cypress, Texas) and Navaneeth Krishna Rajeeva Pandian (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic chip for modelling flow through a vein includes a body including a microchannel extending between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, wherein at least a portion of the microchannel is coated with endothelial cells that form vascular lumen, and a venous valve formed in the body and positioned along the microch...