US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on May 26 for "Methods and materials for culturing, proliferating, and differentiating stem cells" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,657, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Methods and materials for culturing, proliferating, and differentiating stem cells" was invented by Alan D. Marmorstein (Rochester, Minn.), Jarel K. Gandhi (Rochester, Minn.), Travis J. Knudsen (Rochester, Minn.), Matthew S. Hill (Rochester, Minn.) and Jose S. Pulido (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document provides RPE cells and RPE monolayers. For example, compositions containing RPE cells or RPE monolayers as well as methods and materials for making RPE cells or RPE monolayers from, for example, stem ...