ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,407, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DKS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan) and TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).
"Medium additive for suspension culture, medium composition and culture method" was invented by Takeshi Serizawa (Tokyo), Toshiki Sawada (Tokyo), Masahito Nishiura (Kyoto, Japan) and Rina Murase (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To culture cells in a suspended state and easily recover the cultured cells. An additive for suspension culture according to an embodiment is a medium additive which is added to a medium for culturing cells in suspension, the medium additive containing a cellulose oligomer. A medium compos...