ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,403, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FATE THERAPEUTICS INC. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for inducing hematopoietic cell differentiation" was invented by Bahram Valamehr (San Diego), Raedun Clarke (San Diego) and Ryan Bjordahl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides culture platforms, cell media, and methods of differentiating pluripotent cells into hematopoietic cells. The invention further provides pluripotent stem cell-derived hematopoietic cells generated using the culture platforms and methods disclosed herein, which enable feed-free, monolayer culturing and in the absence of EB formation. ...