ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,033, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Production of extracellular vesicles from stem cells" was invented by Shulamit Levenberg (Moreshet, Israel), Shaowei Guo (Haifa, Israel) and Barak Zohar (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and systems for enhanced production and/or secretion of extracellular vesicles from at least one three-dimensional porous scaffold having a population of stem cells cultured thereon, utilizing various shear stress conditions on a variety of stem cells."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2021, u...