ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,532, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).
"Combined organ and hematopoietic cells for transplantation tolerance of grafts" was invented by Samuel Strober (Stanford, Calif.) and Robert Lowsky (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are provided for combined transplantation of a solid organ and hematopoietic cells to a recipient, where tolerance to the graft is established through development of a persistent mixed chimerism. An individual with persistent mixed chimerism, usually for a period of at least six months, is able ...