ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,890, issued on June 2, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
"Biomaterials for enhanced implant-host integration" was invented by Christopher S. Chen (Newton, Mass.), Jan D. Baranski (Philadelphia), Ritika Chaturvedi (Philadelphia), Michael T. Yang (West Windsor, N.J.), Kelly Stevens (Seattle) and Sangeeta Bhatia (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides patterned biomaterials having organized cords and extracellular matrix embedded in a 3D scaffold. According, the present disclosure provides com...