US Patent Issued to The Upside Group on Aug. 18 for "Compositions and methods for increasing the culture density of a cellular biomass within a cultivation infrastructure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,738, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Upside Group Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for increasing the culture density of a cellular biomass within a cultivation infrastructure" was invented by Nicholas J. Genovese (Hayward, Calif.), Meri Teresa Firpo (Oakland, Calif.) and Daphne Dambournet (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods to increase the culture density and/or thickness of a cellular biomass in a cultivation infrastructure, to improve the culture of cells in the absence of serum in a cultivation infrastructure, and to promote anchorage-independent growth of a cell...