US Patent Issued to QUIVER HOLDINGS on March 17 for "Methods for producing neural cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,529, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUIVER HOLDINGS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods for producing neural cells" was invented by Luis Williams (Cambridge, Mass.), Vaibhav Joshi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Graham T. Dempsey (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides differentiated neural cells and methods for making differentiated neural cells from pluripotent stem cells (PSC) at an industrial scale sufficient for high-throughput assays. The methods of the invention allow billions of PSCs and/or neural cells differentiated from the PSCs to be cryopreserved and expanded at multiple steps."

The pate...