ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,214, issued on June 16, was assigned to UPSIDE FOODS INC. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods of making comestible cell-based meat fillets" was invented by Michaela Jane Walker (Emeryville, Calif.) and Morgan Laurence Rease (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of making a comestible cell-based meat composition where the method includes cooling the cell mass from a growth temperature to a temperature below a growth temperature; harvesting at least a portion of the cell mass; de-wetting the harvested cell mass with mechanically-generated pressure; forming the cell-based meat composi...