US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, ONELEGACY FOUNDATION on Feb. 24 for "Mobilization and collection of peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells and lymphocytes from deceased donors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,720, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and ONELEGACY FOUNDATION (Los Angeles).

"Mobilization and collection of peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells and lymphocytes from deceased donors" was invented by Jeffrey L. Veale (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Neil Kogut (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Thomas David Mone (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention describes new methods for the mobilization of human cells such as hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow, and the subsequent collection of such cells from the peripheral blood of deceased donors. These methods prod...