US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Dec. 16 for "Use of microvesicles in the treatment of medical conditions" (Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,631, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp..

"Use of microvesicles in the treatment of medical conditions" was invented by Johan Karl Olov Skog (Lincoln, Mass.) and Casey Maguire (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are populations of microvesicles containing or otherwise associated with viral particles, methods of producing these purified populations, and methods of using these purified populations in a variety of diagnostic, therapeutic and/or prophylactic indications."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2020, under Application No. 16/909,420.

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