US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on March 17 for "Rotator cuff therapy using muscle fiber fragments" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,113, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Rotator cuff therapy using muscle fiber fragments" was invented by Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, N.C.), James Yoo (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Gary G. Poehling (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Brian Robert Waterman (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are disclosed for repair of shoulder injuries by employing disaggregated muscle fiber fragments to regenerate functional shoulder muscle tissue. In some embodiments, the fragments retain functional satellite cells but exhibit cell wall rupture and have an a...