US Patent Issued to Affiliated Stromatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University on March 31 for "Three-dimensional printed bone defect repair scaffold and preparation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,001, issued on March 31, was assigned to Affiliated Stromatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Guangzhou, China).

"Three-dimensional printed bone defect repair scaffold and preparation method thereof" was invented by Qianzhou Jiang (Guangzhou, China), Xinran Tu (Guangzhou, China), Lvhua Guo (Guangzhou, China), Guozhong Tan (Guangzhou, China), Rongfeng Chen (Guangzhou, China) and Yang Zhang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printed bone defect repair scaffold is provided and prepared by steps of: S1, dissolving a gelatin, sodium alginate and a 58S bioglass in water to obtain a solution, and mass-to-vol...