ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,094, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Forschungsinstitut fur Nutztierbiologie (Dummerstorf, Germany).
"In vitro meat production" was invented by Monika Rontgen (Rostock, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing a composition which comprises animal protein, comprising (a) isolating precursor cells from perinatal tissue of a mammal; (b) incubating the precursor cells under conditions which lead to a myogenic differentiation of the precursor cells; and (c) harvesting the cells. The present invention also relates to a method for producing precursor cells from perinatal tissue, to an...