ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,981, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).
"Extracellular matrix scaffolds" was invented by Rachelle Simko (Pittsburgh) and Adam Feinberg (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for micro-tissue encapsulation of cells includes coating a tissue scaffold stamp with an extracellular matrix compound; depositing the tissue scaffold stamp onto a thermoresponsive substrate; seeding the tissue scaffold stamp with a cell culture; incubating the cell culture on the tissue scaffold stamp at a temperature that is specified, wherein the cell culture forms a cell patch that is attached to the extra...