US Patent Issued to NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO on Feb. 10 for "Three-dimensional muscle tissue and production method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,870, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Three-dimensional muscle tissue and production method therefor" was invented by Shoji Takeuchi (Tokyo), Yuya Morimoto (Tokyo), Ai Shima (Tokyo) and Mai Furuhashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a production method for a three-dimensional muscle tissue including the steps of: preparing an approximately rectangular first cell module containing skeletal myoblasts in a hydrogel, and having a plurality of approximately rectangular holes parallel to each other, and an approx...