ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,905, issued on June 9, was assigned to Hackensack University Medical Center (Hackensack, N.J.).

"Methods for treating an immune disorder-related disease by reducing autoreactivity in a T cell compartment" was invented by Yong Zhao (River Edge, N.J.), Robert Korngold (Wayne, N.J.) and Michele Donato (Livingston, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutic amount of an educated mononuclear cell product, a process for preparing the educated mononuclear cell product, and a method for treating a disease characterized by lymphocyte autoreactivity. Mononuclear cel...