ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,138, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Compositions, apparatuses and methods for making and using bioscaffolds" was invented by Susan Sharfstein (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Yubing Xie (Cohoes, N.Y.), Pujhitha Ramesh (Albany, N.Y.), James Castracane (Marshfield, N.Y.), Melinda Larsen (Albany, N.Y.) and Nicholas Moskwa (Bar Harbor, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions, apparatus and methods for generating one or more scaffolds, including: mixing a hydrogel material and/or an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein in an aqueous...