US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on Aug. 19 for "Multi-layer airway organoids and methods of making and using the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,926, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Multi-layer airway organoids and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Sean V. Murphy (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are artificial lung organoids. The artificial lung organoids may include an epithelial cell layer comprising mammalian lung epithelial cells, a stromal cell layer comprising mammalian lung fibroblast cells and an endothelial cell layer comprising mammalian endothelial cells. The artificial lung organoids may optionally include...