US Patent Issued to Keio University, Nihon University on Nov. 3 for "Production method and kit of induced pluripotent stem cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,194, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Keio University (Tokyo) and Nihon University (Tokyo).

"Production method and kit of induced pluripotent stem cells" was invented by Hideyuki Okano (Tokyo), Seiji Shiozawa (Tokyo), Sho Yoshimatsu (Tokyo), Kazuya Edamura (Tokyo) and Aozora Iguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing induced pluripotent stem cells including a step for introducing an initialization factor into somatic cells of a mammal, and culturing in a neural stem cell culture medium to obtain induced neural stem cell-like cells, and a step for cultivating said induced neural stem cell-like cells in a growth...