US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on Nov. 4 for "Growth media for three-dimensional cell culture" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,165, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Growth media for three-dimensional cell culture" was invented by Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Fla.), Thomas Ettor Angelini (Gainesville, Fla.), Steven Craig Ghivizzani (Gainesville, Fla.), Tapomoy Bhattacharjee (Gainesville, Fla.) and Glyn Daniel Palmer (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional cell growth medium is described. The cell growth medium may comprise hydrogel particles swollen with a liquid cell growth medium to form a granular gel yield stress material which undergoes a phase tran...