US Patent Issued to Children's Hospital Los Angeles on Sept. 1 for "Extracellular vesicles from stem cells to treat and/or prevent disease" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,867, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles).

"Extracellular vesicles from stem cells to treat and/or prevent disease" was invented by Laura Perin (Burbank, Calif.), Sargis Sedrakyan (Glendale, Calif.), Benedetta Bussolati (Turin, Italy) and Roger De Filippo (Glendale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods to treat or prevent disease or injury comprising administering an effective amount of extracellular vesicles (EVs) isolated from stem cells to a subject in need thereof."

The patent was filed on Nov. 9, 2017, under Application No. 16/348,412.

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