US Patent Issued to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) on July 29 for "Kidney organoids and method for producing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,669, issued on July 29, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea) and UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Kidney organoids and method for producing the same" was invented by Dong Sung Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Tae Eun Park (Ulsan, South Korea), Hyeon Ji Lim (Ulsan, South Korea) and Do Hui Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for producing kidney organoids including steps of: (1) differentiating stem cells into metanephric mesenchyme cells; (2) forming metanephric mesenchyme cell aggregates by ...