US Patent Issued to Washington University on July 14 for "Cell-embedded vascular graft for transplantation" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,538, issued on July 14, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Cell-embedded vascular graft for transplantation" was invented by Mohamed A. Zayed (St. Louis) and Jeffrey R. Millman (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a transplantation graft for transplanting cells into a patient. In an aspect, the graft may include a first graft layer having a generally cylindrical configuration defining a lumen therethrough, a coating layer surrounding the first graft layer, and a plurality of cells or vectors implanted in either the first graft layer or the coating layer. Further disclosed herein is a method f...