US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Vanderbilt University on April 22 for "Magnetic delivery system and hydrogel fixative for therapeutic cells" (Pennsylvania, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,112, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Magnetic delivery system and hydrogel fixative for therapeutic cells" was invented by David A. Vorp (Pittsburgh), Aneesh Krishna Ramaswamy (Pittsburgh), Justin Sol Weinbaum (Allison Park, Pa.), Kory James Blose (Pittsburgh), Timothy Kwang-Joon Chung (Pittsburgh), Trevor Kickliter (Allentown, Pa.), Yogev Baruch (Pittsburgh) and John A. Curci (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of delivering cells to a target tissue is provided comprising deposi...