US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Feb. 24 for "Patch graft compositions for cell engraftment" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,457, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Patch graft compositions for cell engraftment" was invented by Lola M. Reid (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Wencheng Zhang (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Eliane Wauthier (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods of transplanting cells by grafting strategies into solid organs (especially internal organs) are provided. These methods and compositions can be used to repair diseased organs or to establish models of disease states in experimental hosts. The method involves attachment onto the surface of a tissue or o...