ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,510, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BIOTISSUE HOLDINGS INC. (Miami).

"Compositions of morselized umbilical cord and/or amniotic membrane and methods of use thereof" was invented by Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Fla.) and Lorraine Chua (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates generally to the fields of biology and life sciences. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods for modulating cellular physiology and pathological processing using a combination of compounds that can be found in morselized amniotic membrane tissue and morselized umbilical cord tissue preparations."

The patent was f...