US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 11 for "Modified pluripotent cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,622, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Modified pluripotent cells" was invented by Sonja Schrepfer (Burlingame, Calif.) and Tobias Deuse (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses for the first time pluripotent cells, including induced pluripotent stem cells, embryonic stem cells, hypo-immune pluripotent cells, cells that have been derived therefrom, and cells that have been biologically differentiated therefrom into particular tissue lineages that are ABO blood type O Rhesus Factor negative or otherwise evade rejection resulting from blo...