US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY, JIAXING YAOJIAO MEDICAL DEVICE on Feb. 17 for "Bioink for 3D printing, the preparation method and usage" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,947, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai) and JIAXING YAOJIAO MEDICAL DEVICE Co. LTD. (Jiaxing, China).

"Bioink for 3D printing, the preparation method and usage" was invented by Jinye Wang (Shanghai) and Huajie Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a bioink for 3D printing, the preparation method, and the usage. Such bioink is a gel made of Alpha-zein, porogen by 0-10% of the weight of zein, ethanol and water. The preparation method consists of: 10-50% zein is dissolved into an aqueous solution containing 40-90% (v/v) of ethanol, then, the porogen by 0-1...