US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, FUJIFILM Holdings America on Aug. 25 for "Methods for the production of cardiac fibroblasts" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,728, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc. (Madison, Wis.) and FUJIFILM Holdings America Corp. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"Methods for the production of cardiac fibroblasts" was invented by Sarah Himmerich (Madison, Wis.), Nathaniel Beardsley (Madison, Wis.), Annie Armstrong Smelter (Madison, Wis.), Nathan Meyer (Madison, Wis.), Ravi Vaidyanathan (Madison, Wis.) and Cara Rieger (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for producing quiescent cardiac fibroblast cells from pluripotent stem cells. Further provided herein are microtissue compositions comprising the cardiac fibroblast c...