ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,576, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ALEPH FARMS LTD. (Rehovot, Israel).

"3D-printable protein-enriched scaffolds" was invented by Shulamit Levenberg (Moreshet, Israel), Iris Ianovici (Haifa, Israel), Yedidya Zagury (Nahariya, Israel), Neta Lavon (Ness Ziona, Israel) and Shlomit David (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides 3D edible scaffolds and methods for the production thereof. The invention further discloses edible inks for use in tissue engineering (TE) applications, such as growing and/or supporting 3D engineered tissues, particularly 3D nutritious engineered edible tissues intended for cul...