US Patent Issued to BioGend Therapeutics on Jan. 13 for "Implants for cartilage and related devices and methods" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,468, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BioGend Therapeutics Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Implants for cartilage and related devices and methods" was invented by Chao-Ping Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Po-Wei Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Shih-Ting Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a transplantable implant comprising a biocompatible scaffold configured to be degraded over time when implanted to cartilage of a patient, the biocompatible scaffold comprising a plurality of pores, and a plurality of chondrocytes incorporated into the scaffold. In some embodiments, the implant has a longitudinal lengt...