ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,278, issued on May 13, was assigned to Surrozen Operating Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Wnt surrogate molecules and uses thereof" was invented by Yang Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Tom Zhiye Yuan (Union City, Calif.), Aaron Ken Sato (Burlingame, Calif.), Wen-Chen Yeh (Belmont, Calif.), Claudia Yvonne Janda (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tristan William Fowler (San Francisco), Helene Baribault (Redwood City, Calif.), Kuo-Pao Lai (Campbell, Calif.), Liqin Xie (Elmsford, N.Y.), Randall J. Brezski (Alameda, Calif.) and Chenggang Lu (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides Wnt pathway agonists and rela...