US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Children's Medical Center on Oct. 20 for "Bioelectronic devices to support transplanted cells in vivo for encapsulated cell therapies" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,298, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Bioelectronic devices to support transplanted cells in vivo for encapsulated cell therapies" was invented by Siddharth Krishnan (Cambridge, Mass.), Suman Bose (Cambridge, Mass.), Nima Khatib (Somerville, Mass.), Matthew Bochenek (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert S. Langer (Newton, Mass.) and Daniel Anderson (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioelectronic device houses therapeutic cells and is configured to be implanted in a host. The device includes an electrochemical cell that...