US Patent Issued to Korea Research Institute of Bioscience on Aug. 26 for "Method for mass producing natural killer cell and use of natural killer cell obtained by the method as anti-cancer agent" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,371, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Korea Research Institute of Bioscience (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for mass producing natural killer cell and use of natural killer cell obtained by the method as anti-cancer agent" was invented by In Pyo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Suk Ran Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sooyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for producing a large amount of natural killer cells and the use of the natural killer cells as an anticancer agent. The method produces fresh NK cells with high purity within a short time, and can also produce cold-preserved NK cells an...