US Patent Issued to Trailhead Biosystems on Sept. 8 for "Methods and compositions for generating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,368, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Trailhead Biosystems Inc. (Cleveland).

"Methods and compositions for generating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells" was invented by Nooshin Amini (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for generating pre-oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (pre-OPCs), oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) and pre-myelinating oligodendrocytes (preOLs) from human pluripotent stem cells are provided using chemically-defined culture media that allow for generation of pre-OPCs in as little as three days, SOX10+ OLIG2+ NKX2-2+ OPCs in as little as twelve days and CD9+A2B5+O4+CNPase+ preOLs in as little as eig...