ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,852, issued on July 14, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Cultured tissue and bioreactor systems and methods for production thereof" was invented by David L. Kaplan (Medford, Mass.), John Yuen (Medford, Mass.) and Natalie R. Rubio (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to cultured tissue, methods for production of the cultured tissue, and a bioreactor system for production of the cultured tissue. In some embodiments, the production of the cultured tissue may involve, at a first bioreactor, feeding a fiber scaffold into a chamber containing culture media, seeding the ch...