US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Aug. 12 for "Methods of isolating and using descemet's membrane and compositions including isolated descemet's membrane" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,655, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Methods of isolating and using descemet's membrane and compositions including isolated descemet's membrane" was invented by Joshua Honghan Hou (Minneapolis), Peter Bedard (St. Paul, Minn.) and Ching Yuan (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods of preparing a decellularized Descemet's membrane and an isolated Descemet's membrane, methods of using an isolated Descemet's membrane, and tissues prepared using an isolated Descemet's membrane. This disclosure further describes a composition that includes a...