US Patent Issued to UCL BUSINESS on July 1 for "Methods for tissue decellularization" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,447, issued on July 1, was assigned to UCL BUSINESS LTD (London).

"Methods for tissue decellularization" was invented by Paola Bonfanti (London) and Asllan Gjinovci (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides A method of producing a decellularised extracellular matrix (ECM) scaffold of at least a portion of a lobular organ with no common artery, the method comprising: a) closing afferent blood vessels to substantially seal a target lobular organ or portion thereof with no common and/or major artery within a non-human donor or a dead/brain dead human donor; b) optionally: (i) cleaning coagulum and/or blood fro...