US Patent Issued to PROKIDNEY on Sept. 9 for "Renal cell populations and uses thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,191, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PROKIDNEY (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Renal cell populations and uses thereof" was invented by Joydeep Basu (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Kelly Guthrie (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Dominic Justewicz (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Teresa Burnette (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Andrew Bruce (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Russell W. Kelley (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and John W. Ludlow (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns enriched heterogeneous mammalian renal cell populations characterized by biomarkers, and methods of making and using the same."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2022, un...