US Patent Issued to Spiderwort Biotechnologies, University of Ottawa on Aug. 18 for "Composite biomaterials" (Canadian, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,699, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Spiderwort Biotechnologies Inc. (Ottawa) and University of Ottawa (Ottawa).

"Composite biomaterials" was invented by Ryan Hickey (Ottawa), Andrew E. Pelling (Ottawa), Santiago Campuzano (Ottawa), Paula Cristina de Sousa Faria Tischer (Londrina, Brazil) and Kama Szereszewski (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are composite scaffold biomaterials including two or more scaffold biomaterial subunits, each including a decellularized plant or fungal tissue from which cellular materials and nucleic acids of the tissue are removed, the decellularized plant or fungal tissue having a 3...