US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Dec. 9 for "Making and using cardiopoietic cells" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,379, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Making and using cardiopoietic cells" was invented by Andre Terzic (Rochester, Minn.) and Atta Behfar (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to methods and materials for making and using cardiopoetic stem cells. For example, methods and materials for delivering one or more nucleic acids (e.g., one or more RNAs) encoding one or more early mesodermal transcription factors to a stem cell to generate a cardiopoetic stem cell are provided."

The patent was filed on Sept. 27, 2019, under Application ...