ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,195, issued on Nov. 4.
"Bioprinter" was invented by Avriel Hillman (New York), Michael Liebschener (New York) and Peter Alexander (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At a high level, disclosed herein is a bioprinter configured to fabricate a single but highly complex and multi-material regenerative scaffold compared to a more traditional approach of mass production of simple shapes. In an embodiment, printer may include a multi-head, multi-axial bio-printer for extrusion printing and laser manipulation of scaffold and/or organic materials specific to a particular tissue such as without limitation customized vascularized bone graf...