US Patent Issued to ADEKA on Sept. 2 for "Method for producing decellularized material for transplantation and graft composition consisting of biocompatible material including said material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,219, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ADEKA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing decellularized material for transplantation and graft composition consisting of biocompatible material including said material" was invented by Tetsuya Higami (Hyogo, Japan), Kenichiro Hiwatari (Tokyo), Yu Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Haruki Obara (Tokyo), Takuya Kimura (Tokyo), Mitsumasa Homma (Tokyo), Kyohei Ochiai (Tokyo), Keita Kinoshita (Tokyo) and Naoki Morimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a decellularized transplantation material, wherein the method includes the steps of (a) harvesting a branch-bearing blood vessel from a v...