US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Aug. 26 for "System and methods of manufacturing a lateral meniscus implant" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,797, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"System and methods of manufacturing a lateral meniscus implant" was invented by William Pfaff (Chester, N.J.), Michael G. Dunn (Manalapan, N.J.) and Charles J. Gatt Jr. (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a scaffold for use in fabricating a soft tissue implant, comprising: receiving, by a processor, soft tissue data corresponding to dimensions for a soft tissue, and a first and second weighting factor selected based on the dimensions of the soft tissue; transforming, by the processor, the soft ti...