ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,457, issued on June 24, was assigned to LifeNet Health (Virginia Beach, Va.).
"Biologically functional soft tissue scaffolds and implants" was invented by Xiaofei Qin (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Silvia Chen (Virginia Beach, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to biologically functional scaffolds having a porous structure, methods of preparing, and methods of use thereof. The invention also relates to methods of repairing a defect, methods of culturing cells and promoting differentiation of stem cells using the same."
The patent was filed on July 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/871,149.
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