US Patent Issued to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Feb. 24 for "Graded porous scaffolds as immunomodulatory wound patches" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,453, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"Graded porous scaffolds as immunomodulatory wound patches" was invented by Azadeh Timnak (Philadelphia), Peter I. Lelkes (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Yah-el H. Har-el (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides porous biomimetic scaffolds and methods for making the same. The scaffolds have graded pore sizes for enhanced cell penetration. The scaffolds are useful for wound regeneration by facilitating cell penetration into the scaffold interior and due to their inherent immunomodulatory e...