ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,424, issued on July 29, was assigned to Aspen Neuroscience Inc. (San Diego).
"Methods of predicting engraftment capability of differentiated neuronal progenitor cells" was invented by Jim Mossman (San Diego) and Daniel Fremgen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for predicting characteristics, such as activity, function and/or differentiation state of an in vitro population of neuronal cells, for instance a population of neuronal progenitor cells, as well as methods for selecting and/or implanting an in vitro population of neuronal progenitor cells having desired characteristics. Also provided herein...