ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,767, issued on May 12, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston) and Boston Medical Center Corp. (Boston, Morocco).
"Tissue markers" was invented by Mark W. Grinstaff (Brookline, Mass.), Boris Nicolas Bloch (Brookline, Mass.) and Jonah Kaplan (Newton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventions provided herein relate to tissue markers and uses thereof, e.g., to mark a target tissue site (e.g., a biopsy site in a breast tissue) or to produce a cell scaffold. The tissue markers described herein are designed to be resistant to fast migration (e.g., immediate migration after implantation through a needle track) and sl...