US Patent Issued to Takeda Pharmaceutical on July 22 for "Conformal coating of biological surfaces" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,791, issued on July 22, was assigned to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Conformal coating of biological surfaces" was invented by Venkat R. Garigapati (Southborough, Mass.) and Tetsuya Matsuura (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides, inter cilia, ultra-thin conformal coated biological surfaces, such as living cells, cell clusters, tissues, organs, and hybrid synthetic organs, and methods of making the same, e.g., using click reactive water soluble polymers, under conditions that do not damage or significantly modify the biological surfaces. In some embodiments, the coated biological su...