ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,916, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd..
"Veto cells generated from memory T cells" was invented by Yair Reisner (Houston), Noga Or-Geva (Rehovot, Israel), Rotem Gidron Budovsky (Rehovot, Israel), Esther Bachar-Lustig (Rehovot, Israel), Assaf Lask (Rehovot, Israel) and Sivan Kagan (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an isolated population of non graft versus host disease (GvHD) inducing cells comprising a central memory T-lymphocyte (Tcm) phenotype, the cells being tolerance inducing cells and/or endowed with anti-disease activity, and capable of homing to the ...