US Patent Issued to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY on Sept. 23 for "Method for producing natural killer cell and use thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,496, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for producing natural killer cell and use thereof" was invented by Yee Sook Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Han-Seop Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Binna Seol (Daejeon, South Korea) and In Pyo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing natural killer cells using direct reprogramming, natural killer cells produced thereby, a biomarker specific to the natural killer cells, a cell therapeutic agent comprising the natural killer cells, a composit...