US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, The Johns Hopkins University on April 15 for "Next generation designer liver organoids and their methods of preparation and use" (Arizona, Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,957, issued on April 15, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Next generation designer liver organoids and their methods of preparation and use" was invented by Samira Kiani (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Mo R Ebrahimkhani (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Jeremy Velazquez (Pittsburgh), Ryan LeGraw (Pittsburgh) and Patrick Cahan (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to synthetic liver organoids and methods of using such synthetic liver organoids for various applications including drug discovery and modeling human li...