US Patent Issued to Cutiss on April 14 for "Methods and systems for producing skin grafts" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,401, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cutiss AG (Schlieren, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for producing skin grafts" was invented by Vincent Ronfard (Villarzel, Switzerland), Claude Holenstein (Zurich, Switzerland), Anna-Lena Dittrich (Zumikon, Switzerland), Laurent Barnes (Zurich, Switzerland), Reto Frei (Turgi, Switzerland), Ulrich Offinger (Rieden AG, Switzerland) and Boris Stolz (Pfaffhausen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods for producing skin grafts for rehabilitation of skin defects are carried out in a closed system operated and controlled in an automated manner. A skin biopsy may be separate...