US Patent Issued to LifeNet Health on April 29 for "Soft tissue supports, and methods of making and using same" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,328, issued on April 29, was assigned to LifeNet Health (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Soft tissue supports, and methods of making and using same" was invented by Xiaofei Qin (Virginia Beach, Va.), Michael LaPrade (Virginia Beach, Va.), Jingsong Chen (Virginia Beach, Va.), Joshua Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.), Austin Johnson (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Erich Lohmann (Virginia Beach, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Soft tissue supports, soft tissue implants, and methods of making and using soft tissue supports are disclosed. One soft tissue support includes a unitary piece of processed porous tissue material having an anterior portion and a po...