US Patent Issued to FABRICO TECHNOLOGY on March 18 for "Decellularized and demineralized bone matrices and methods for making same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,493, issued on March 18, was assigned to FABRICO TECHNOLOGY INC (Pflugerville, Texas).

"Decellularized and demineralized bone matrices and methods for making same" was invented by Joseph Oleniczak (Austin, Texas) and Robert Chin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a bone matrix includes exposing a bone tissue to a solution including a surfactant and a protease; treating the bone tissue with an acid solution following exposing the bone tissue; and electrophoretically treating the acid treated bone tissue. A bone matrix has a DNA content of not greater than 0.1 micrograms per milligram sample and a modulus...