US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for multilane vasculature" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,607, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for multilane vasculature" was invented by Dongeun Huh (Villanova, Pa.) and Andrei Georgescu (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for multilane vasculature and multiorgan vascular-vessel fluidic interfaces in in vitro models. The method includes embedding at least one tissue into a 3D structure, forming a vascular interface for nutrient perfusion into the tissue or tissues, tuning the vascular interface or interfaces together or separately to possess a property of a native biological ...