US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Feb. 10 for "Bioerodible wraps and uses therefor" (Pennsylvania, California, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,213, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Bioerodible wraps and uses therefor" was invented by Mohammed S. El-Kurdi (Pittsburgh), William R. Wagner (Gibsonia, Pa.), David A. Vorp (Pittsburgh), John J. Stankus (Campbell, Calif.), Lorenzo Soletti (Pittsburgh), Jonathan McGrath (Middletown, R.I.), Yi Hong (Pittsburgh) and J. Christopher Flaherty (Middletown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular tissue graft device is provided comprising a tubular member and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the tubular...