ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,255, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ImmuneBridge Inc. (San Francisco).
"Compositions and methods of making expanded hematopoietic stem cells using derivatives of fluorene" was invented by Jesse Cotari (San Francisco), Timothy Webb (Trenton, Canada) and Zhan Wang (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is directed to, inter alia, compounds, methods, systems, and compositions for the maintenance, enhancement, and expansion of hematopoietic stem cells derived from one or more sources of CD34+ cells. Sources of CD34+ cells include bone marrow, cord blood, mobilized peripheral blood, and non-mobilized peripheral blo...