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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2017
Applicant:
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Manus J. P. Biggs, Galway, IE;
Ryan Cooper, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Jinyu Liao, New York, NY (US);
Teresa Anne Fazio, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Carl Fredrik Oskar Dahlberg, Stockholm, SE;
Jeffrey William Kysar, New York, NY (US);
Samuel Jonas Wind, White Plains, NY (US);
Assignee:
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/0775 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/0068 (2013.01); C12N 5/0663 (2013.01); C12N 2533/30 (2013.01); C12N 2535/00 (2013.01); C12N 2535/10 (2013.01); C12N 2537/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
An elastomeric substrate comprises a surface with regions of heterogeneous rigidity, wherein the regions are formed by exposing the elastomeric substrate to an energy source to form the regions such that the regions include a rigidity pattern comprising spots.