US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Aug. 5 for "Organ-on-chips that mimic human pregnancy and parturition" (American, Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,508, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Organ-on-chips that mimic human pregnancy and parturition" was invented by Arum Han (College Station, Texas), Sungjin Kim (Bryan, Texas), Ramkumar Menon (League City, Texas), Lauren Richardson (College Station, Texas) and Ourlad Alzeus Tantengco (Bataan, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to an organ-chip model having a plurality of cell culture chambers connected through arrays of microfluidic channels. In some embodiments, each cell culture chamber of the plurality of cell cultur...