US Patent Issued to Colorado State University Research Foundation on June 3 for "Methods and devices for improving bone healing" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,510, issued on June 3, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Methods and devices for improving bone healing" was invented by David Prawel (Loveland, Colo.), Bernard Seguin (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Connor Witt (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a bone defect extending between a proximal bone structure and a distal bone structure of a patient may include resecting a region of bone between the proximal bone structure and the distal bone structure and encompassing the bone defect, positioning a biodegradable osteogenic scaffold within a biodegradab...