US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) on Sept. 9 for "Generation of functional neutrophils and macrophages from induced pluripotent stem cells in chemically defined conditions using transient expression of ETV2" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,401, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (Madison, Wis.).

"Generation of functional neutrophils and macrophages from induced pluripotent stem cells in chemically defined conditions using transient expression of ETV2" was invented by Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wis.), Vera Sergeyevna Brok Volchanskaya (Singapore), Kran Suknuntha (Madison, Wis.), Anna Huttenlocher (Madison, Wis.), David Alfred Bennin (Mount Horeb, Wis.) and Lucas Klemm (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of producing in vitro derived neutrophils or macrophages in xenogen- and seru...