ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,985, issued on March 31.
"Compliant biological scaffold" was invented by Brent Schultz (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliant scaffold incorporates a plurality of elongated apertures that form a geometric pattern enabling biaxial expansion or contraction. An elongated aperture has a pair of nodes located on opposing sides of the aperture and between a pair of antinodes located on the extended and opposing ends of the elongated aperture. A geometric pattern may have various geometric shapes, or tiles, between the plurality of apertures. The geometric tiles have a bounded perimeter formed by the plurality of elo...