US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Sept. 23 for "Cardiac fibroblast derived extracellular matrix" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,993, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

"Cardiac fibroblast derived extracellular matrix" was invented by Eric Schmuck (Madison, Wis.), Amish Raval (Madison, Wis.), Sushmita Roy (Madison, Wis.) and Tianhua Zhou (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to methods, cells, and compositions for preparing cardiac extracellular matrix. In particular, provided herein are methods for preparing a cardiac extracellular matrix using SUSD2 High fibroblasts and SUSD2 High myofibroblasts."

The patent was filed on Sept. 6, 2022, under Application No. 17/929,890.

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