ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,814, issued on April 15.

"Materials for soft and hard tissue repair" was invented by Barry K. Bartee (Lubbock, Texas) and Richard A. Rosen (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biomaterials and methods and uses for repair or augmentation of tissues are provided. In particular, the invention provides a multi-layered, naturally occurring multi-axial oriented biomaterial comprising predominately type I collagen fibers. The invention further provides methods and uses for repair or augmentation of tissues using biomaterials of the invention."

The patent was filed on June 24, 2022, under Application No. 17/849,193.

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