ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,497, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Orizuru Therapeutics Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Method for enriching cardiac myocytes" was invented by Yoshinori Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Miki (Kyoto, Japan) and Misato Koakutsu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a technology for enriching atrial myocytes or ventricular myocytes in a cardiomyocyte-containing cell population induced from stem cells, provided is a method for enriching atrial myocytes or ventricular myocytes in a cardiomyocyte-containing cell population induced from stem cells, the method including a step of collecting atrial myocytes or ventricular myocytes from...