US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Oct. 27 for "Injectable micro-annealed porous scaffold for articular cartilage regeneration" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,475, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Injectable micro-annealed porous scaffold for articular cartilage regeneration" was invented by Donald Richieri Griffin (Charlottesville, Va.), Blaise N. Pfaff (Charlottesville, Va.), Nicholas J. Cornell (Charlottesville, Va.) and Brent R. DeGeorge Jr. (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions that can be employed for generating microporous gel systems. In some embodiments, the compositions include at least one sub-population of soft hydrogel microparticles with a Youngs modulus of less than 5...