ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,469, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERHE MEDICALE (INSERM) (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE STRADBOURG (Strasbourg, France).
"Composite product for the osteoarticular regeneration of cartilage lesion" was invented by Nadia Benkirane-Jessel (Kienheim, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a biomaterial comprising: -a membrane wound patch (a), made of a nanofibrous polymeric scaffold, -a hydrogel (b) including autologous or allogenic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, and -a bone wound patch (c) being a nanofibrous scaffold made of polymers, wherein said ...