US Patent Issued to Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation on Aug. 5 for "Tissue derived porous matrices and methods for making and using same" (New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,192, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (Edison, N.J.).

"Tissue derived porous matrices and methods for making and using same" was invented by Christopher M. Nichols (Tacoma, Wash.), Abigail Phipps (East Brunswick, N.J.), Andrew Madans (Jersey City, N.J.), Kevin Wu (Morganville, N.J.) and Evangelia Chnari (Scotch Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue derived porous matrices for treating wounds are provided, as well as methods for making and using them. The tissue derived porous matrices comprise processed tissue of any of several types, such as dermis, adipose, etc., and have a plurali...