US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Jan. 27 for "Electroactive biocompatible hydrogel structures" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,702, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Electroactive biocompatible hydrogel structures" was invented by Jonathan Rivnay (Chicago), Anthony J. Petty (Evanston, Ill.), Cheng Sun (Wilmette, Ill.) and Henry Oliver T. Ware (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biocompatible polymer hydrogel composite structures, methods of making the composite structures, and methods of using the composite structures as scaffolds for biological tissue growth and regeneration are provided. The methods for making the composite structures start with a porous high resolution three-dimensional hydrogel scaff...