ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,325, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.), BioEnthesis Inc. (Durham, N.C.) and Advanced Regenerative Tech Inc. (Lafayette, Ind.).

"Connective tissue to bone interface scaffolds" was invented by Dushyanth R. Surakanti (Madison, N.J.), Adam B. Yanke (Madison, N.J.), Adam W. Martinez (Madison, N.J.), Kurt W.S. Klitzke (Madison, N.J.), Travis E. Entrop (Madison, N.J.), Dimitrios J. Angelis (Madison, N.J.), Eric A. Nauman (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Darryl A. Dickerson (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Connective tissue-to-bone interface scaffolds (e.g., ligament-to-bone interface scaffol...