US Patent Issued to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on March 3 for "Approach to repair tissue defects by bonding injectable gels to native soft tissues" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,661, issued on March 3, was assigned to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York).

"Approach to repair tissue defects by bonding injectable gels to native soft tissues" was invented by Tyler J. Distefano (New York) and James C. Iatridis (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and kits are described for repairing a fibrocartilage defect in a subject. The fibrocartilage defect is contacted with a first composition containing an oxidized and methacrylated glycosaminoglycan to form an imine bond between the glycosaminoglycan and the fibrocartilage defect, thereby coating the fibrocartilage defect with the glyc...