US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University on July 7 for "Extrusion printing of biocompatible scaffolds" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,132, issued on July 7, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"Extrusion printing of biocompatible scaffolds" was invented by Antonios Georgios Mikos (Houston), Jason Liwei Guo (Houston), Luis Antonio Diaz-Gomez (Oviedo, Spain), Anthony John Melchiorri (Houston), Maryam Eugenia Elizondo (Houston), Gerry Lynn Koons (Houston) and Panayiotis Dimitrios Kontoyiannis (Bellaire, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for making biocompatible articles are provided. A method includes preparing a 3D printable mixture and depositing successive layers of the mixture in a predetermined pattern to form a por...