US Patent Issued to Materialise on June 2 for "Scaffold based implants" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,644, issued on June 2, was assigned to Materialise N.V. (Leuven, Belgium).

"Scaffold based implants" was invented by Pieter Slagmolen (Technologielaan, Belgium), Inge Famaey (Leuven, Belgium), Durva Gajjar (Leuven, Belgium), Giulia Rosellini (Leuven, Belgium) and Dries Vandecruys (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a flexible scaffold implant comprising a plurality of layered structures, the plurality of layered structures comprising: a first layered structure having a three-dimensional (3D) shape and formed from a bioresorbable material, and a second layered structure conf...