US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park on July 7 for "3D printed UV crosslinking masks" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,139, issued on July 7, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"3D printed UV crosslinking masks" was invented by Megan Kimicata (New Market, Md.) and John Patrick Fisher (Kensington, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current approaches in small diameter vascular grafts for coronary artery bypass surgeries fail to address physiological variations along the graft that contribute to thrombus formation and ultimately graft failure. An interlayer drug delivery system can sustain delivery of heparin through the graft with a high degree of temporal and spatial control. A heparin-loaded gelatin methacrylate...