US Patent Issued to Northwestern University, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago on June 2 for "Biodegradable soft elastomers for regenerative engineering" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,889, issued on June 2, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Chicago).

"Biodegradable soft elastomers for regenerative engineering" was invented by Guillermo A. Ameer (Chicago), Arun K. Sharma (Elmhurst, Ill.), Xinlong Wang (Evanston, Ill.) and Matthew I. Bury (Lake Villa, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are materials and methods related to scaffolds and uses thereof. In some embodiments, provided herein are poly (octamethylene-octanol citrates) (POOC) scaffolds with native mechanical properties that are comparable to urinary bladder tis...