US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital on Sept. 9 for "Compositions and methods for immune tolerance" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,249, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Compositions and methods for immune tolerance" was invented by Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Lexington, Mass.), Arnav Chhabra (Cambridge, Mass.) and Marcela V. Maus (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Immunotolerant engineered human tissue constructs are provided that are suitable for implantation into subjects. In some embodiments, the immunotolerance is controllable by an inducible system. Methods of making and using the immunotolerant engineered tissue constructs are provided."

The patent ...