ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,668, issued on July 29, was assigned to Milica Radisic (Toronto).
"Methods for tissue generation" was invented by Milica Radisic (Toronto), Yimu Zhao (Mississauga, Canada), Peter Backx (Toronto) and Naimeh Rafatian (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides ex vivo chamber-specific cardiac tissues, methods for generating the cardiac tissues in a bioreactor, and methods of using the cardiac tissues. Examples of cardiac tissues that can be generated include, but are not limited to, atrial tissues, ventricular tissues, and composite tissues having an atrial tissue connected to a ventricular tissue."
The pat...