US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Aug. 25 for "Macro tissue explant, methods and uses therefor" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,890, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Macro tissue explant, methods and uses therefor" was invented by Carlo Giovanni Traverso (Newton, Mass.), Thomas Christian Von Erlach (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert S. Langer (Newton, Mass.), Sarah Saxton (Cambridge, Mass.) and Daniel Minahan (Weymouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue explants of the gastrointestinal tract are provided. Methods of making and using the tissue explants are also provided, along with substrates designed for the tissue explants described."

The paten...