US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Brigham and Women's Hospital on July 14 for "Tissue anchoring articles" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,605, issued on July 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Tissue anchoring articles" was invented by Carlo Giovanni Traverso (Newton, Mass.), Alex G. Abramson (St. Louis), Ester Caffarel Salvador (Cambridge, Mass.), Niclas Roxhed (Bromma, Sweden), Minsoo Khang (Boston), Taylor Bensel (Walpole, Mass.), David Dellal (Boston) and Robert S. Langer (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-righting articles, such as self-righting capsules for administration to a subject, are generally provided. In some embodiments, the self-righting articl...