ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,344, issued on April 7, was assigned to China Medical University (Taichung City, Taiwan), China Medical University Hospital (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Shine-On Biomedical Co. Ltd. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Production of exosomes and uses thereof" was invented by Yi-Wen Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan), Der-Yang Cho (Taichung City, Taiwan), Hsin-Yuan Fang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Ming-You Shie (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chih-Ming Pan (Taichung City, Taiwan), Kai-Wen Kan (Taichung City, Taiwan), Cheng-Yu Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan), Min-Hua Yu (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Shao-Chih Chiu (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...