US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 5 for "Methods to preserve tumor-stromal interactions in culture and therapeutic predictive applications thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,530, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods to preserve tumor-stromal interactions in culture and therapeutic predictive applications thereof" was invented by James Neal (San Mateo, Calif.) and Calvin Jay Kuo (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functional in vitro assays are provided for determining patient specific responsiveness to immunotherapy agents within a clinically actionable time frame."

The patent was filed on Oct. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/508,474.

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