US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, University of Miami on March 3 for "Methods of producing granulomas and animal models of sarcoidosis" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,179, issued on March 3, was assigned to UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington) and University of Miami (Miami).

"Methods of producing granulomas and animal models of sarcoidosis" was invented by Mehdi Mirsaeidi (Miami) and Chongxu Zhang (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a sarcoidosis animal model and methods of inducing sarcoidosis in an animal. The disclosure also relates to methods of producing an in vitro granuloma, and methods of using the sarcoidosis animal model. Disclosed herein are animals comprising one or more granulomas, wherein the one or mo...