US Patent Issued to Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine on Dec. 30 for "Photoreceptors and photoreceptor progenitors produced from pluripotent stem cells" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,284, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Westborough, Mass.).

"Photoreceptors and photoreceptor progenitors produced from pluripotent stem cells" was invented by Robert P. Lanza (Clinton, Mass.), Shi-Jiang Lu (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Wei Wang (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for the production of photoreceptor cells and photoreceptor progenitor cells from pluripotent stem cells. Additionally provided are compositions of photoreceptor cells and photoreceptor progenitor cells, as well as methods for the therapeutic use thereof. Exemplary methods may produc...