US Patent Issued to IVIVA Medical on Jan. 20 for "Thin film interposition of basement membrane scaffolds" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,894, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to IVIVA Medical Inc. (Medford, Mass.).

"Thin film interposition of basement membrane scaffolds" was invented by Charles C. Klassen (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods of making basement membrane constructs having interior or luminal volumes. The interior or luminal volumes may be in the form of vascular networks for liquid (e.g., blood) or gas perfusion. The interior spaces may also contain cells, such as epithelial cells. Also disclosed are tissues and organs, and methods of making thereof, comprising basement membrane constructs."

The pat...