ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,871, issued on July 22, was assigned to LYELL IMMUNOPHARMA INC..
"Methods for culturing cells" was invented by Suman Kumar Vodnala (San Mateo, Calif.), Nicholas P. Restifo (San Francisco) and Robert Langland Eil (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The preset disclosure provides methods of culturing cells, e.g., pluripotent cells, multipotent cells, and/or immune cells (e.g., T cells, NK cells, and/or TILs) in a medium comprising at least about 5 mM potassium ion, wherein the medium is not hypertonic. In some aspects, the medium is hypotonic. In some aspects, the methods disclosed herein increases the number of less-differentiate...