US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on Nov. 11 for "Molecular signatures of three sub-populations of dermal fibroblasts and dermal equivalent comprising one of these sub-populations" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,089, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Molecular signatures of three sub-populations of dermal fibroblasts and dermal equivalent comprising one of these sub-populations" was invented by Valerie Haydont (Aulnay-sous-Bois, France) and Daniel Asselineau (Aulnay-sous-Bois, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of this invention is a method of in vitro identification of a dermal fibroblast as being a papillary fibroblast, a reticular fibroblast or a dermal-hypodermal junction fibroblast (FJDH), comprising a step of measuring the level of an expression product of at least one gene selected from the group consi...