US Patent Issued to Children's Hospital Medical Center on Sept. 23 for "Hepato-biliary-pancreatic tissues and methods of making same" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,500, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati).

"Hepato-biliary-pancreatic tissues and methods of making same" was invented by Takanori Takebe (Cincinnati) and Hiroyuki Koike (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are hepato-biliary-pancreatic organoid ("HBPO" or "HBP organoid") compositions, and methods of making and using hepato-biliary-pancreatic organoid compositions. The disclosed compositions may have two or more functions selected from hepatic tissue function, biliary tissue function, exocrine pancreatic function, and endocrine pancreatic tissue function. Methods of tr...