US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on May 19 for "Systems and methods for magnet-induced assembly tissue grafts" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,454, issued on May 19, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for magnet-induced assembly tissue grafts" was invented by Richard Rox Anderson (Boston), Joshua Tam (Boston) and Christiane Fuchs (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assembling a plurality of tissue grafts are provided. A method includes applying a magnetic coating over a surface of a donor site and harvesting the plurality of micro tissue grafts from the donor site, so that an upper surface of each of the plurality of micro tissue grafts contains the coating. The method also includes arranging a magnet over the...