US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Aug. 25 for "Engineered fibrillar extracellular matrix networks for three-dimensional (3D) cellular support systems" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,052, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Engineered fibrillar extracellular matrix networks for three-dimensional (3D) cellular support systems" was invented by Joerg Lahann (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mirella Wawryszyn (Lampertheim, Germany) and Dylan B. Neale (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic cellular support systems in the form of engineered extracellular matrices are provided. The cellular support system may include a three-dimensional scaffold structure comprising at least one void. At least one suspended fibril spans across the at least one void in ...