US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, FUJIFILM Holdings America on Dec. 9 for "Methods for the production of hepatocytes" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,380, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc. (Madison, Wis.) and FUJIFILM Holdings America Corp. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"Methods for the production of hepatocytes" was invented by Igor Gurevich (Madison, Wis.), Sarah Burton (Madison, Wis.), Christie Munn (Madison, Wis.), Madelyn Donegan (Madison, Wis.), Katherine Czysz (Madison, Wis.), Deepika Rajesh (Madison, Wis.) and Makiko Ohshima (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of producing hepatocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells. Further provided herein are methods of using the hepatocytes for the treatment of a l...