US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on July 14 for "Methods of generating human endometrial stromal fibroblasts and three-dimensional multi-layered human endometrial tissue compositions" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,006, issued on July 14, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Methods of generating human endometrial stromal fibroblasts and three-dimensional multi-layered human endometrial tissue compositions" was invented by Virginia Chu Cheung (Evanston, Ill.), John Kessler (Evanston, Ill.) and Chian-Yu Peng (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for obtaining endometrial stromal fibroblast cells from pluripotent stem cells, such as induced pluripotent stem cells. The present disclosure also provides methods of obtaining a three-dimensional, multilayered endometrial tissue composition. M...