ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,860, issued on July 22, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Scaffolding material for stem cell cultures and stem cell culture method using same" was invented by Satoshi Haneda (Osaka, Japan), Yuriko Manabe (Osaka, Japan), Ryoma Ishii (Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Iguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Yuhei Arai (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scaffolding material for culturing a stem cell, which contains a synthetic resin, and has a storage elasticity at 100deg C. of 1.0x104 Pa or more and 1.0x108 Pa or less, and a ratio between the storage elasticity at 25deg C. and the storage elasticity at 100deg C. ((storage el...