US Patent Issued to Riken, Racthera on Jan. 27 for "Composite including neural retina, retinal pigment epithelial cells, and hydrogel, and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,382, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Riken (Saitama, Japan) and Racthera Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Composite including neural retina, retinal pigment epithelial cells, and hydrogel, and method for producing same" was invented by Yuji Tanaka (Wako, Japan), Michiko Mandai (Wako, Japan), Masayo Takahashi (Wako, Japan) and Suguru Yamasaki (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composite comprising a neural retina, a retinal pigment epithelial cell sheet, and a hydrogel."

The patent was filed on April 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/605,573.

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