ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,659, issued on July 29, was assigned to UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY Korea (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Microbeads for cell culture and method of monitoring cell culture using the same" was invented by Tong In Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sung Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Eun Ah Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae Woo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are microbeads for cell culture and a method of monitoring cell culture using the same. More particularly, each of the microbeads for cell culture according to an embodiment of the present invention include a core and ...