US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on July 7 for "Methods and compositions for use of mitochondrial therapies to improve female reproductive potential" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,182, issued on July 7, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Methods and compositions for use of mitochondrial therapies to improve female reproductive potential" was invented by Jonathan L. Tilly (Windham, N.H.) and Dori Woods (Londonderry, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for increasing the fertilization rate of an oocyte in a granulosa cell-oocyte complex, and/or the success rate of in-vitro fertilization by using mitochondrial therapies. Also disclosed are methods of identifying compounds for fertility treatment."

The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/801,406.

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