US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on May 12 for "Methods for producing mature adipocytes and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,322, issued on May 12, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods for producing mature adipocytes and methods of use thereof" was invented by Benjamin D. Pope (Medford, Mass.) and Kevin Kit Parker (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and systems which accommodate 3-dimensional adipocyte expansion to produce, e.g., mature adipocytes and synthetic adipose tissue with cellular properties of mature adult organisms, including cell size and cytoarchitecture, and the use of such methods and systems for, e.g., in vitro drug screening and/or toxicity ...