US Patent Issued to RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE on April 15 for "Biomimetic nano-composite scaffold for enhanced bone healing and fracture repair" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,809, issued on April 15, was assigned to RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, N.Y.).

"Biomimetic nano-composite scaffold for enhanced bone healing and fracture repair" was invented by Atharva Abhay Poundarik (Troy, N.Y.), Marta Monteiro Silva Carvalho (Lisbon, Portugal) and Deepak Vashishth (Glenmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of mineralizing tissue, including placing within a body of a subject a substance, wherein the substance includes osteopontin and osteocalcin. Also provided is a tissue mineralization-promoting substance including osteopontin and osteocalcin, and an article for promoting tissue m...