ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,595, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
"Method of preparing a three-dimensional scaffold for cell culture" was invented by Jegan A. Athianrayanan (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Vaiyapuri Subbarayan Periasamy (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Ali Abdullah Alshatwi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Khalid S. Al-Numair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a three-dimensional scaffold comprises obtaining fish scales including a plurality of microgrooves and ridges having a width ranging from about 25 MuM to about 30 MuM and sterilizing the fish scales to provide the three-dimens...