ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,896, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Orizuru Therapeutics Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Growth inhibitor" was invented by Kensuke Sakuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriko Yamazoe (Kanagawa, Japan), Taro Toyoda (Kyoto, Japan) and Shuhei Konagaya (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an approach of removing non-endocrine unintended cells coexisting with insulin-secreting cells obtained by the differentiation. The present invention relates to a method for producing an insulin-producing cell population, comprising the step of treating an insulin-producing cell population obtained by the diffe...