US Patent Issued to STEMCELLAGO on Aug. 11 for "Engineered cartilage" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,730, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to STEMCELLAGO INC. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Engineered cartilage" was invented by Adetola Bamidele Adesida (Edmonton, Canada), Martin Osswald (Edmonton, Canada), Khalid Ansari (Edmonton, Canada) and Hadi Seikaly (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method of producing high-quality engineered cartilage graft in a human of animal, such as nasal cartilage graft, comprising expanding chondrocytes and/or chondroprogenitors, e.g. autologous human nasoseptal chondrocytes (hNC,) from a donor patient by selecting expanded chondrocytes and/or chondroprogenitors by detecting the exp...