US Patent Issued to Emory University, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta on June 16 for "Methods of preserving mesenchymal stem cells" (Georgia, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,841, issued on June 16, was assigned to Emory University (Atlanta) and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc. (Atlanta).

"Methods of preserving mesenchymal stem cells" was invented by Jacques Galipeau (Madison, Wis.) and Raghavan Chinnadurai (Tucker, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods of preserving mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) for use in clinical applications. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to methods of preserving MSCs comprising mixing MSCs with interferon-gamma prior to cryopreserving, freezing, or cooling the MSCs to a temperature below zero degrees Celsius."

The patent...