US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, The General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 17 for "Respiratory and sweat gland ionocytes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,319, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Respiratory and sweat gland ionocytes" was invented by Jayaraj Rajagopal (Boston), Aviv Regev (Cambridge, Mass.), Moshe Biton (Cambridge, Mass.), Adam Haber (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniel Montoro (Boston) and Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for identifying ionocytes from respiratory epithelial cells, and uses of such cells for treatment of inflammatory lung disease. Also pro...