US Patent Issued to NANTONG UNIVERSITY on Aug. 11 for "Bionic nerve graft and preparation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,418, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NANTONG UNIVERSITY (China).

"Bionic nerve graft and preparation method thereof" was invented by Xiaosong Gu (Nantong, China), Xiu Dai (Nantong, China), Xingzhong Gu (Nantong, China), Leilei Gong (Nantong, China), Meiyuan Li (Nantong, China), Hualin Sun (Nantong, China), Tianmei Qian (Nantong, China), Hongkui Wang (Nantong, China) and Lai Xu (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bionic nerve graft and a preparation method thereof is provided. The bionic nerve graft includes a helical stent, a nanofiber membrane, guide fibers and hBMSC-ECM. A surface of the helical stent is coated with...