US Patent Issued to Thomas Jefferson University, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Oct. 20 for "Injectable, cross-linkable and subcellular size microfibers for soft tissue repair" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,221, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia) and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia).

"Injectable, cross-linkable and subcellular size microfibers for soft tissue repair" was invented by Li-Hsin Han (Wynnewood, Pa.), Mingkun Wang (Philadelphia), Chunxiao Cui (Arlington, Mass.), John Todd Lawrence (Wynnewood, Pa.) and Maurizio Pacifici (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an injectable scaffold comprising a plurality of unclad microfibers, and a diluent solution."

The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2021, under Application No. 18/265,818.

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