ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,442, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Collagen Matrix Inc. (Oakland, N.J.).
"Collagen-based meniscus implants" was invented by Shu-Tung Li (Wyckoff, N.J.) and Natsuyo Shishido Lee (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a collagen meniscus implant by obtaining a freshly excised non-human meniscus, rinsing it in an aqueous solution, drying the rinsed meniscus, shaping it to approximate in dimension an average-sized human meniscus, extracting non-collagenous material from the shaped meniscus, and sterilizing it, yielding a collagen meniscus implant containing at least 90% by weight of type I collage...