US Patent Issued to STEMRIM, OSAKA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,498, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to STEMRIM INC. (Osaka, Japan) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells and method for producing same" was invented by Katsuto Tamai (Suita, Japan), Takashi Shimbo (Suita, Japan), Eiji Sasaki (Suita, Japan) and Takehiko Yamazaki (Toyonaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventors discovered that ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells circulating in peripheral blood that are induced by necrotic tissue damage contribute to the regeneration of damaged tissue. On the basis of this discovery, provided are ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells, a method for producing th...