US Patent Issued to University of Virginia on Dec. 16 for "Digital assembly of spherical hydrogel voxels to form 3D lattice structures" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,767, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Digital assembly of spherical hydrogel voxels to form 3D lattice structures" was invented by Liheng Cai (Charlottesville, Va.) and Jinchang Zhu (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for 3D bioprinting of hydrogel voxels enable microfluidics-assisted digital assembly of spherical particles (DASP). The systems include a 3D motion system, a microfluidic printhead coupled to the 3D motion system, an extrusion device fluidly coupled to the microfluidic printhead, and a sacrificial support matrix. The sacrificial suppo...