ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,339, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tianjin University (Tianjin, China).

"Brain organoid containing optic vesicles generated based on H9 induction and eye-brain fusion culture method" was invented by Liqun Chen (Tianjin, China), Rui Hu (Tianjin, China) and Dong Ming (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brain organoid containing optic vesicles generated based on H9 induction and an eye-brain fusion culture method thereof are provided. H9 embryonic stem cell induction is used to generate a brain organoid containing optic vesicles with primitive visual field. Based on an established optic vesicle brain organoid culture sys...