US Patent Issued to Global Surgical Innovations on Aug. 4 for "Reinforced biocompatible scaffold" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,416, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Global Surgical Innovations Pty Ltd (Burwood, Australia).

"Reinforced biocompatible scaffold" was invented by Elizabeth Anne Boughton (Burwood, Australia) and Philip Boughton (Burwood, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforced biocompatible scaffold facilitates integration of biological tissue. The reinforced scaffold comprises a porous biocompatible scaffold and an arrangement of at least one biocompatible filament embedded within and fixed to the biocompatible scaffold, and/or at least one biocompatible conduit embedded within and fixed to the biocompatible scaffold."

The patent wa...