US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 18 for "Efficient stem cell delivery into biomaterials using capillary driven encapsulation" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,735, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Efficient stem cell delivery into biomaterials using capillary driven encapsulation" was invented by Geoffrey C. Gurtner (Portola Valley, Calif.), Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, Calif.), Robert C. Rennert (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dominik Duscher (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient stem cell delivery into biomaterials using capillary driven encapsulation are disclosed herein where stem/progenitor and/or tissue specific cells are rapidly and efficiently seeded via capillary driven encapsulation i...