US Patent Issued to Applied Cells on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for producing CAR T cells" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,460, issued on April 7, was assigned to Applied Cells Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for producing CAR T cells" was invented by Yuchen Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Silin Sa (San Jose, Calif.), Liping Yu (San Jose, Calif.), Fengxiang Pang (Qinhuangdao, China), Jinlong Fan (Qinhuangdao, China), Jimeng Zhu (Qinhuangdao, China) and Huiyu Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a population of T cells that express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising the steps of providing a fluid sample including a population of T cells; labeling the population of T cells with magnetic beads; extracting...