ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,054, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Asterias Biotherapeutics Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell compositions" was invented by Erik Michael Whiteley (Concord, Calif.), Uzma Shoukat-Mumtaz (Fremont, Calif.), Rashi Srivastava (Saratoga, Calif.), Nathan Charles Manley (San Jose, Calif.) and Casey Christopher Case (Hillsborough, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions comprising a population of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs), as well as methods of making and using the same, are provided. In one aspect, a container comprising a composition, where the composition comprises a population of cells...