US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on July 29 for "Cell culture media compositions for primary cells" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,657, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Cell culture media compositions for primary cells" was invented by Allan B. Dietz (Chatfield, Minn.) and Gaylord Knutson (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Platelet lysate compositions and cell culture media compositions for maintaining and/or growing mammalian cells, such as mammalian endothelial cells (ECs) and mammalian endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), in particular human ECs (huECs) and human EPCs (huEPCs), such as primary huECs and primary huEPCs, are provided. The cell culture media compositions cont...