US Patent Issued to MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL on May 27 for "Polymer-coated crosslinked alginate gel fiber" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,574, issued on May 27, was assigned to MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Polymer-coated crosslinked alginate gel fiber" was invented by Shoji Furusako (Tokyo), Tsutomu Satoh (Tokyo), Tomohiro Narumi (Tokyo) and Shingo Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There has been demand for an additional method for producing antibodies. The present invention provides: a polymer-coated crosslinked alginate gel fiber in which a core layer containing a crosslinked alginate gel and either antibody-producing cells (e.g., antibody-producing CHO cells) or bioactive-substance-producing cells (e.g., MIN6 cells derived from pancreatic Beta ...