US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 29 for "Tissue engineered vascular grafts" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,309, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Tissue engineered vascular grafts" was invented by Markus W. Reiterer (Plymouth, Minn.), Kimberly A. Chaffin (Woodbury, Minn.) and Michael F. Wolf (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to systems and methods for tissue engineered grafts. The systems and methods can be used to make tissue engineered vascular grafts. The systems and methods use bioink deposited on a material having specified properties and matured under specified conditions to create the tissue engineered grafts having biomechanical properties tailored to a pa...