ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,576, issued on March 25, 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 co...