ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,659, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL (Beijing) and INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"DMSO-free cryopreservation solution and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Jie Yan (Beijing), Jie Qiao (Beijing), Liying Yan (Beijing), Rong Li (Beijing), Jianjun Wang (Beijing), Shenglin Jin (Beijing) and Jianyong Lv (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryopreservation solution contains 0.01-50.0 g of bionic ice control materials, 5.0-30 mL of polyols, 1-30 g of water-soluble sugar, and 0-30 mL of serum, and a buffer in every 100 mL of the cryopreservation solu...