ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,273, issued on April 1, was assigned to MERZ PHARMA GMBH &Co. KGAA (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Porous biomaterials for tissue regeneration" was invented by Radovan Vukicevic (Frankfurt, Germany) and Alexander Linko (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a porous material having a scaffold comprising: one or more fibroin moieties A and one or more polysaccharide moieties B, wherein A and B are directly conjugated with another without an interconnecting linker structure. Moreover, the present invention refers to a method for preparing a porous material. The present invention furth...