ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,842, issued on June 16, was assigned to KOLON TISSUEGENE INC (Rockville, Md.).
"Treatment of intervertebral disc degeneration" was invented by Moon Jong Noh (Rockville, Md.), Hyun Bae (Rockville, Md.), Sung Woo Kang (Rockville, Md.) and Kwan Hee Lee (Rockville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method for preventing or retarding degeneration of intervertebral disc at an intervertebral disc defect site, which includes injecting a mammalian connective tissue cell into the intervertebral disc defect site."
The patent was filed on March 30, 2020, under Application No. 17/599,831.
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