ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,032, issued on Feb. 17.

"Method for producing erythroid cells" was invented by Carole Green (Epsom, Great Britain), Vanja Crew (Bristol, Great Britain), Nicole Thornton (Bristol, Great Britain), Louise Tilley (Bristol, Great Britain) and David Anstee (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing erythroid cells comprising culturing erythroid-producer cells which are obtainable from an EMP3-negative individual, and/or have reduced expression of EMP3 and/or reduced expression of one or more downstream effectors of the EMP3 pathway."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2019, under Application No. 17/291,105...