US Patent Issued to HELIOS, RIKEN, OSAKA UNIVERSITY on April 7 for "Method of producing retinal pigment epithelial cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,464, issued on April 7, was assigned to HELIOS K.K. (Tokyo), RIKEN (Wako, Japan) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Suita, Japan).

"Method of producing retinal pigment epithelial cell" was invented by Masanori Sawada (Tokyo), Masayo Takahashi (Wako, Japan) and Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a production method of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells that improves differentiation induction efficiency of pluripotent stem cells into RPE cells, and can provide highly pure RPE cells by a simple and easy operation in a short period, a culture method of RPE cells that can stably grow and culture a cell, a...