ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,901, issued on June 9, was assigned to University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Nerve bundle and production method of nerve bundle" was invented by Aiki Marushima (Tsukuba, Japan), Akira Matsumura (Tsukuba, Japan), Hiroki Bukawa (Tsukuba, Japan), Yuji Matsumaru (Tsukuba, Japan), Masao Koda (Tsukuba, Japan), Hiroshi Ishikawa (Tsukuba, Japan), Akihiro Ohyama (Tsukuba, Japan), Junko Toyomura (Tsukuba, Japan), Shohei Takaoka (Tsukuba, Japan), Yosuke Shibao (Tsukuba, Japan), Miho Watanabe (Tsukuba, Japan) and Tetsuya Abe (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of this invention is to provide a method of producing a nerve ...