US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Dec. 30 for "SOX9-induced oligodendrocyte progenitor cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,660, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"SOX9-induced oligodendrocyte progenitor cells" was invented by Hon Man Alex Ng (Cambridge, Mass.), Parastoo Khoshakhlagh (Cambridge, Mass.) and George M. Church (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a differentiation agent that consists essentially of SOX9 for the production of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) from pluripotent stem cells (PSC). Also provided herein are methods of producing the PSCs and methods of using the PSCs to produce OPCs and oligodendrocytes."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2...