ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,888, issued on June 2, was assigned to Spiderwort Inc. (Ottawa).

"Dermal fillers" was invented by Kama Szereszewski (Ottawa), Ryan Hickey (Ottawa), Andrew E. Pelling (Ottawa), Maxime Leblanc Latour (Gatineau, Canada), Mark Stroobach (Ottawa), Pavel Milman (Ottawa), Christopher Odding (Gatineau, Canada) and Paula Cristina de Sousa Faria Tischer (Parana, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are dermal fillers including decellularized plant or fungal tissue from which cellular materials and nucleic acids of the tissue are removed; as well as methods and uses thereof for cosmetic and/or reconstructive applications. Also p...