US Patent Issued to Bioforma on Oct. 27 for "Unidirectional and bidirectional anchor scaffolds" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,208, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Bioforma Inc. (Winnetka, Ill.).

"Unidirectional and bidirectional anchor scaffolds" was invented by Michael J. Lee (Winnetka, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound closure device includes multiple base elements arranged in a repeating pattern and a first anchor extending from a first side of each base element of the multiple base elements in a first direction for securing itself to a first layer of tissue along a wound within a body. The wound closure device further includes a second anchor extending from a second side of each base element of the multiple base elements in a second directi...