US Patent Issued to Cornell University on Jan. 20 for "Rapid prototyping and in vitro modeling of patient-specific coronary artery bypass grafts" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,895, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Rapid prototyping and in vitro modeling of patient-specific coronary artery bypass grafts" was invented by James K. Min (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Bobak Mosadegh (New York), Simon Dunham (New York) and Kranthi Kumar Kolli (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and a method for producing patient-specific small diameter vascular grafts (SDVG) for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. In some embodiments, the method for producing SDVGs includes non-invasive quantification of patient-specific coronary and vascular physiol...