US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on June 16 for "Compositions comprising extracellular matrix of primitive animal species and related methods" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,843, issued on June 16, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Compositions comprising extracellular matrix of primitive animal species and related methods" was invented by Chien-Wen Chen (Somerville, Mass.) and Yadong Wang (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for preparing an ECM material, including an ECM gel, from regenerative or regenerating tissue. ECM material prepared from regenerative or regenerating materials also is provided."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/739,466.

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