ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,188, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and The United States Government as represented by the Departement of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Hydrogels for in situ-forming tissue constructs" was invented by David Myung (Saratoga, Calif.), Fang Chen (Stanford, Calif.), Gabriella Fernandes-Cunha (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sarah Hull (Stanford, Calif.), Sarah Heilshorn (Mountain View, Calif.), Christopher Lindsay (San Mateo, Calif.), Christopher Madl (Los Altos, Calif.) and Hyun Jong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and...