ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,453, issued on May 19, was assigned to Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (Edison, N.J.).

"Acellular soft tissue-derived matrices and methods for preparing same" was invented by Benjamin Schilling (Jersey City, N.J.), Andrew Madans (Jersey City, N.J.), Abigail Phipps (East Brunswick, N.J.), Thomas Tylutki (Rahway, N.J.), Todd Nilsen (Howell, N.J.), Yen-Chen Huang (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Evangelia Chnari (Scotch Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions including a first soft tissue-derived matrix and a second soft tissue-derived matrix are provided, as well as methods of making such compositions. In some embodimen...