ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,527, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Functional cortical organoids, methods of making, and uses thereof" was invented by Alysson Renato Muotri (La Jolla, Calif.), Priscilla Davidson Negraes (San Diego), Cleber Trujillo (San Diego) and Pinar Mesci (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods of making functional cortical organoids from somatic cells and stem cells and methods of using the functional organoids."

The patent was filed on Oct. 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/378,530.

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