ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,079, issued on July 14, was assigned to OSSIUM HEALTH INC. (San Francisco).

"System and method for extraction and cryopreservation of bone marrow" was invented by Erik J. Woods (Carmel, Ind.), Brian H. Johnstone (Fishers, Ind.), Dongsheng Gu (Indianapolis), Aubrey Marie Sherry (Carmel, Ind.), Kelsey Gwen Musall (Avon, Ind.), John R. Woods (Avon, Ind.), James Hardin (Columbia, S.C.) and Alan Hooks (Commerce City, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for extracting bone marrow cells from bone obtained from deceased donors, for preparing the bone marrow for cryopreservation and for obtaining desired cells from cryop...