ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,485, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to I Peace Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cell treatment device, suspension culture vessel, and stem cell induction method" was invented by Koji Tanabe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kenta Suto (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ryoji Hiraide (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This cell treatment device is provided with: a factor introduction device 30 for introducing a pluripotent induction factor into cells so as to prepare induction factor-introduced cells; and a reprogramming suspension culture vessel for culturing the induction factor-introduced cells that have been prepared by the factor introduction device ...