US Patent Issued to Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn on Oct. 21 for "Induced photoreceptor cells and methods for their production" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,602, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Bonn, Germany).

"Induced photoreceptor cells and methods for their production" was invented by Volker Busskamp (Bonn, Germany), Marta Zuzic (Bonn, Germany) and Anka Kempe (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing induced photoreceptor cells from an initial cell is provided, the method includes providing one or more transcription factors (TFs) including at least GON4L to the initial cell. In some versions, the initial cell is a human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC). In other embodiments the method includes providi...