US Patent Issued to Ecolepol Ytechnique Federale de Lausanne on March 24 for "Organoid tissue engineering" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,112, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ecolepol Ytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Organoid tissue engineering" was invented by Matthias Lutolf (Tolochenaz, Switzerland), Nikolche Gjorevski (Renens, Switzerland), Mike Nikolaev (Lausanne, Switzerland), Sara Geraldo (Bussigny, Switzerland), Nathalie Brandenberg (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Yoji Tabata (Cessy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods for developing and maintaining organoids and the organoids produced thereby."

The patent was filed on Nov. 17, 2017, under Application No. 16/462,313.

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