ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,995, issued on Sept. 23.
"Meningeal repair using human umbilical cord patches" was invented by Ramesha Papanna (Houston), Lovepreet K. Mann (Houston) and Stephen A. Fletcher (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method for performing meningeal repair includes closing an open meningeal defect with a human umbilical cord meningeal patch."
The patent was filed on July 12, 2019, under Application No. 16/510,818.
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