US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for immobilizing extracellular matrix material on organ on chip, multilayer microfluidics microdevices, and three-dimensional cell culture systems" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,696, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for immobilizing extracellular matrix material on organ on chip, multilayer microfluidics microdevices, and three-dimensional cell culture systems" was invented by Dongeun Huh (Villanova, Pa.), Mark Mondrinos (Philadelphia), Cassidy Blundell (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jeongyun Seo (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed subject matter provides an approach to address the needs for microscale control in shaping the spacial geometry and microarchitecture of 3D collagen hydrogels. For exampl...