US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 21 for "Use of 3D-printed freestanding structures for ex vivo tissue" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,798, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Use of 3D-printed freestanding structures for ex vivo tissue" was invented by Prashant Mali (La Jolla, Calif.), Udit Parekh (La Jolla, Calif.), Amir Dailamy (La Jolla, Calif.), Xin Lei (La Jolla, Calif.) and Michael Hu (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides information on the methodology used in the fabrication of three-dimensional cellularized tissue constructs from free-standing evacuable 3D printed composites and/or scaffolds embedded in an extracellular matrix mimic generated from bioco...