US Patent Issued to Surrozen Operating on Nov. 11 for "Tissue-specific WNT signal enhancing molecules and uses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,884, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Surrozen Operating Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Tissue-specific WNT signal enhancing molecules and uses" was invented by Zhengjian Zhang (Albany, Calif.), Yang Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Wen-Chen Yeh (Belmont, Calif.), Tom Zhiye Yuan (Union City, Calif.), Helene Baribault (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kuo-Pao Lai (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides tissue-specific Wnt signal enhancing molecules, and related methods of using these molecules to increase Wnt signaling in liver tissues."

The patent was filed on July 9, 2019, under Appli...