US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on June 17 for "Aligned hydrogel tubes for tissue repair and regeneration" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,882, issued on June 17, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Aligned hydrogel tubes for tissue repair and regeneration" was invented by Courtney M. Dumont (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Mitchell A. Carlson (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Lonnie D. Shea (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biomaterial implants and methods for facilitating tissue repair and regeneration are provided herein. The implants may include organized hydrogel structures. Such implants are fabricated using a 2-phase polymerization technique, wherein hydrogel-based microspheres are formed as an intermediate product of the 2-phase pol...