US Patent Issued to WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES on June 24 for "Organ/tissue decellularization, framework maintenance and recellularization" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,078, issued on June 24, was assigned to WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Organ/tissue decellularization, framework maintenance and recellularization" was invented by Giuseppe Orlando (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Shay Soker (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for decellularizing organs and tissues in vitro and in vivo are provided, as are methods of maintaining organ and tissue frameworks and methods of recellularizing organs and tissues, thereby providing an approach to needed organs or tissues."

The patent was filed on Feb. 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/170,669.

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