ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,322, issued on March 31, was assigned to NanoCav LLC (Culver City, Calif.).
"Devices and methods for mitochondria replacement and for generating cellular therapeutics" was invented by Ting-Hsiang Sherry Wu (Culver City, Calif.), Artin Mehrabi (Burbank, Calif.) and Jon Thomas Van Lew (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are presented for delivery of various macrostructures into cells, such as depleted cells as well as methods of generating engineered cells using said devices and methods. Cells are placed on a porous membrane. A force is applied by a configurable actuator to a deformable fluid reservoir that...