ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,033, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SanBio Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Medium, methods, cells and secreted factors for stem cell culture and therapy" was invented by Aline M. Betancourt (La Jolla, Calif.), Ruth S. Waterman (La Jolla, Calif.) and Thomas F. Isett (Sparks, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and culture medium, useful for inducing polarization in multipotent stem cells. Additionally, described herein are multipotent cells produced by the methods and culture medium of this disclosure that are useful therapeutic agents. Also described herein are extracellular vesicles and factors secreted by m...