US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 7 for "High throughput screening system for engineered cardiac tissues" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,317, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"High throughput screening system for engineered cardiac tissues" was invented by Thomas Bifano (Mansfield, Mass.), Jerome Mertz (Newton, Mass.), Marshall Ma (Watertown, Mass.) and Devin Beaulieu (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary imaging system is provided. The imaging system includes a light source configured to illuminate a plurality of spatially separated regions of a material structure producing a first illumination. A lens produces an image of the spatially separat...