US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on Sept. 29 for "Mammalian lung spheroids and lung spheroid cells and uses thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,259, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Mammalian lung spheroids and lung spheroid cells and uses thereof" was invented by Ke Cheng (Raleigh, N.C.), Eric T. Henry (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jhon Cores (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using lung tissues as a source, mammalian lung progenitor cells lung spheroids and lung spheroid cells (LSCs) were prepared. In one embodiment mammalian LSCs were prepared by (i) culturing mammalian lung tissue explant cells under adherent culture conditions to form a first lung cell outgrowth culture; (ii) culturing the first lung cell outgrowth ...