US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on May 13 for "Tissue construct, methods of producing and using the same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,069, issued on May 13, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Tissue construct, methods of producing and using the same" was invented by Mark Skylar-Scott (Brookline, Mass.), Sebastien Uzel (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jennifer Lewis (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods for producing tissue constructs, tissue constructs produced by the methods, and their use. The described method of producing a tissue construct comprises providing a granular tissue, depositing one or more filaments on or in the granular tissue, each filament comprising an ink, and gelling or fusing th...