ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,340, issued on May 12, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition for culturing brain organoid based on decellularized brain matrix and method for preparing same" was invented by Seung Woo Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Ann Na Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Seung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yoonhee Jin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for preparing a composition for culturing a brain organoid, the method comprising (a) decellularizing brain tissue; (b) drying the brain tissue; and (c) gelating the brain tissue."

The patent was filed...