US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Sept. 29 for "Hydrogel systems for skeletal interfacial tissue regeneration applied to epiphyseal growth plate repair" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,258, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Hydrogel systems for skeletal interfacial tissue regeneration applied to epiphyseal growth plate repair" was invented by Juan M. Taboas (Pittsburgh) and Jingming Chen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are biomaterials, systems, and methods for guiding regeneration of an epiphyseal growth plate or similar interfacial tissue structures. In one aspect, the disclosed technology can include a biologic material that can comprise one or more of a hydrogel carrier for growth factors and MS...