US Patent Issued to EVOLVED BY NATURE on May 13 for "Silk-hyaluronic acid tissue fillers and methods of making and using the same" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,067, issued on May 13, was assigned to EVOLVED BY NATURE INC. (Needham, Mass.).

"Silk-hyaluronic acid tissue fillers and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Gregory H. Altman (Providence, R.I.), Rebecca L. Lacouture (Needham, Mass.), Peng Xu (Lexington, Mass.), Erlei Jin (Winchester, Mass.), Carlos J. Bosques (Arlington, Mass.), Patrick Yacono (Medford, Mass.) and Patrik Johansson (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hyaluronic acid and silk fibroin or silk fibroin fragments tissue fillers and methods of making and using the same are provided herein. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to a biocomp...