US Patent Issued to JANSSEN BIOTECH on June 30 for "Materials and methods for the manufacture of pluripotent stem cells" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,781, issued on June 30, was assigned to JANSSEN BIOTECH INC. (Horsham, Pa.).

"Materials and methods for the manufacture of pluripotent stem cells" was invented by Iqbal S. Grewal (Newtown, Pa.), Rajkumar Ganesan (Blue Bell, Pa.) and Sanjaya Singh (Blue Bell, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided here in are methods of producing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and isolated population of produced induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs). Also provided herein are methods of treating a subject in need thereof using the produced iPSCs or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the produced iPSCs."

The patent was filed on April ...