ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,233, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to BIOCONIX PTY LTD. (Wentworth Falls, Australia).

"Engineered materials and methods of forming" was invented by Melissa Knothe Tate (Wentworth Falls, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a substrate includes mapping a three dimensional spatial distribution of at least one structural protein fiber of extracellular matrix of biological material of interest, designing a fiber assembly pattern based on an intrinsic pattern of the at least one structural protein fiber of the extracellular matrix of the biological material, and assembling fibers based on the fiber assembly patte...