ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,585, issued on March 25, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods of producing multi-layered tubular tissue constructs" was invented by Katharina Theresa Kroll (Somerville, Mass.), Kimberly A. Homan (Somerville, Mass.), Mark A. Skylar-Scott (Brookline, Mass.), Sebastien G. M. Uzel (Cambridge, Mass.), David B. Kolesky (Cambridge, Mass.), Patrick Lustenberger (Herrliberg, Switzerland) and Jennifer A. Lewis (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods for producing multi-layered tubular tissue structures, tissue structures produced by the methods, and their use."

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