ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,449, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York).

"Self-organizing neural ectodermal lineage cellular structures, and compositions and methods relating thereto" was invented by Tomomi Haremaki (New York), Jakob Metzger (New York), Fred Etoc (New York) and Ali Brivanlou (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a neural ectodermal lineage cellular structure, and compositions and methods related thereto. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides a geometrically isolated neural ectodermal lineage cellular structure (neuruloid) including spatially segregated neuroepithelial...