ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,218, issued on July 29, was assigned to Maco Pharma (Mouvaux, France).

"Method for sterilising a platelet lysate" was invented by Bruno Delorme (Marcq-en-Baroeul, France), Sabrina Viau (Wasquehal, France) and Francis Goudaliez (Faches-Thumesnil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilised platelet lysate obtained with a method for sterilising a platelet lysate in the liquid state comprising at least the endogenous growth factors TGF-beta 1, EGF, PDGF-AB, IGF-1, VEGF and bFGF. The method comprising freezing the liquid platelet lysate in order to obtain a frozen platelet lysate, and irradiating the frozen platelet lysate with io...