US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on April 14 for "Composition comprising three-dimensional astrocyte bundles of bi-polar and aligned astrocyte processes and a method of making thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,670, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Composition comprising three-dimensional astrocyte bundles of bi-polar and aligned astrocyte processes and a method of making thereof" was invented by D. Kacy Cullen (Media, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes a composition comprising an astrocyte comprising aligned and elongated astrocyte processes resulting from ex vivo machine-driven, physical stretching of the astrocyte maintained in culture, as well as a method of making it. The invention also includes a composition comprising an astrocyte comprising al...