US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics on Aug. 25 for "Methods for directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to HLA homozygous immune cells" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,058, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc. (Madison, Wis.).

"Methods for directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to HLA homozygous immune cells" was invented by Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wis.), Xin Zhang (Madison, Wis.), Andrew J. Brandl (Madison, Wis.), Deepika Rajesh (Madison, Wis.), Bradley Swanson (Madison, Wis.), Christie Munn (Madison, Wis.), Sarah Burton (Madison, Wis.) and Wen Bo Wang (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for the efficient in vitro differentiation of HLA homozygous blood cell-derived pluripotent stem cells to hematopoietic precurso...