US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Sept. 23 for "Chemically defined differentiation protocol for pericyte differentiation from pluripotent stem cells" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,501, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Chemically defined differentiation protocol for pericyte differentiation from pluripotent stem cells" was invented by William T. Daly (Madison, Wis.), William L. Murphy (Waunakee, Wis.), Cheryl M. Soref (Madison, Wis.), Elizabeth E. Torr (Madison, Wis.), Elizabeth A. Aisenbrey (Madison, Wis.) and Hunter J. Johnson (Brooklyn, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of differentiating pericytes from pluripotent stem cells comprising culturing steps in chemically defined culture medium. A population of exog...