US Patent Issued to KANEKA, NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE on Jan. 13 for "Method for producing pancreatic Beta cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,804, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE (Tokyo).

"Method for producing pancreatic Beta cells" was invented by Masato Ibuki (Kobe, Japan), Hirotoshi Matsuta (Kobe, Japan), Hitoshi Okochi (Tokyo), Shigeharu Yabe (Tokyo) and Satsuki Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem addressed by the present invention is to provide a method for producing pancreatic Beta cells from endothermal cells that have been induced to differentiate from pluripotent stem cells, wherein the method allows the production of pancreatic Beta cells of high quality, and to p...