ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,602, issued on May 27.
"Apparatus and method for harvesting and preparing viable stem cells" was invented by Glenn Polansky (Ridgewood, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing viable stromal and mesenchymal stem cells from adipose tissue that produces high quality and high counts of stem cells with a low risk of contamination. The apparatus provides ultrasonic waves through a constant temperature bath to the tissue held in a sterile sonication container such as a test tube or jar. No sonication probe touches the tissue or the cells during the process. The stem cells produced are ready to be administered to a patient...