US Patent Issued to Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Oct. 28 for "Non-decellularized plant leaf cultures for meat" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,679, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.).

"Non-decellularized plant leaf cultures for meat" was invented by Alex S. Rebello (Somerset, Mass.), Jordan Jones (Allston, Mass.) and Glenn Gaudette (Holden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in vitro meat having non-decellularized leaf scaffold and a method for producing an in vitro meat using non-decellularized leaf scaffold are described herein. The method includes preparing a non-decellularized plant leaf and incubating the leaf in a cell culture media to obtain a non-decellularized leaf scaffold; seeding the leaf scaffold with a po...