US Patent Issued to LifeNet Health on Feb. 4 for "Plated hepatocytes and preparation and uses thereof" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,353, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to LifeNet Health (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Plated hepatocytes and preparation and uses thereof" was invented by Jung Bok Lee (Virginia Beach, Va.), Angela Murchison (Virginia Beach, Va.), Edward LeCluyse (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Jingsong Chen (Virginia Beach, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a product comprising plated human hepatocytes on a surface and at least some of the plated hepatocytes are in one or more hepatocyte clusters on feeder cells, which are attached to the surface. A method of preparing plated human hepatocytes is also provided. The preparation metho...