US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Sept. 9 for "In vitro cell culture mucus systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,391, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"In vitro cell culture mucus systems" was invented by Nancy L. Allbritton (Seattle) and Yuli Wang (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This presently disclosed subject matter relates to an in vitro cell culture comprising a cell monolayer comprising mucus producing cells and a mucus layer, and methods of making and using the same. The methods including culturing mucus producing cells on a cell support structure under conditions to establish a mucus layer on the luminal side of the cell monolayer, thereby producing ...