ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,975, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cyclic peptide, cell scaffold material, cell separating material, and medium" was invented by Koichi Minami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a cyclic peptide containing a cyclic segment containing an RGD sequence and having 8 to 14 amino acid residues. A thioether bond is formed between an amino acid residue Xa located on a most N-terminal side of the cyclic segment and an amino acid residue Xb located on a most C-terminal side of the cyclic segment. However, in a case where one of the amino acid residue Xa and the amino acid residue Xb is...