US Patent Issued to KYOTO UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Pluripotent stem cell-derived plate-shaped cartilage and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,226, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan).

"Pluripotent stem cell-derived plate-shaped cartilage and method for producing the same" was invented by Noriyuki Tsumaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a plate-shaped cartilage comprising a plurality of pluripotent stem cell-derived cartilaginous particles integrated with one another; and a method for producing the plate-shaped cartilage, comprising step 1: producing pluripotent stem cell-derived cartilaginous particles, and step 2: culturing the cartilaginous particles under culture conditions that allow adjacent cartilaginous particl...