US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for tissue grafting and copying" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,232, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Method and apparatus for tissue grafting and copying" was invented by Richard Rox Anderson (Boston), William A. Farinelli (Danvers, Mass.), Walfre Franco (Worcester, Mass.), Joshua Tam (Charlestown, Mass.), Fernanda H. Sakamoto (Boston), Apostolos G. Doukas (Belmont, Mass.), Martin Purschke (Dorchester, Mass.) and Min Yao (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments of apparatus and method for obtaining one or more portions of biological tissue ("micrografts") to form grafts are provided. For example, a hollow tube can be inserted into tissu...