US Patent Issued to EpiBone on Feb. 3 for "Injectable off-the-shelf cartilage, tendon, and ligament repair compositions and methods of use" (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,307, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to EpiBone Inc. (Long Island, N.Y.).

"Injectable off-the-shelf cartilage, tendon, and ligament repair compositions and methods of use" was invented by Sarindr Bhumiratana (Oceanside, N.Y.), Terri-Ann Kelly (Springfield, Mass.), Eric Meade Jeffries (Warrington, Pa.), Olivia Spencer Beane (Rahway, N.J.) and Angela Hai Huang (Flushing, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions comprising a condensed mesenchymal cell body and a hydrogel are provided. The compositions may further include drugs or growth factors. The condensed mesenchymal cell body may include a connective tissue cell, or even a pr...