US Patent Issued to HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES on Sept. 30 for "Meniscus regeneration material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,228, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Hiroshima, Japan) and SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Meniscus regeneration material" was invented by Nobuo Adachi (Hiroshima, Japan), Naosuke Kamei (Hiroshima, Japan), Masakazu Ishikawa (Hiroshima, Japan), Tomoyuki Nakasa (Hiroshima, Japan), Shingo Kawabata (Kyoto, Japan) and Tsubasa Yamanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a meniscus regeneration material having high meniscus regeneration ability. The meniscus regeneration material includes protein (A), which has a total percentage of Beta-turns and random coi...