US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on March 24 for "Ovarian follicle cells and constructs for fertility treatment and hormone replacement therapy" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,104, issued on March 24, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Ovarian follicle cells and constructs for fertility treatment and hormone replacement therapy" was invented by Sittadjody Sivanandane (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Russel C. Sequeira (Advance, N.C.), John D. Jackson (Clemmons, N.C.), Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and James J. Yoo (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a culture of oogonia stem cells comprising oogonia stem cells is provided. The method may further include culturing the oogonia stem cells with granulosa and theca cells to different...