US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Jan. 27 for "Biodegradable porous membrane for generating scaffold-free biological assemblies" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,445, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Biodegradable porous membrane for generating scaffold-free biological assemblies" was invented by Ki-Bum Lee (Monmouth Junction, N.J.) and Letao Yang (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three dimensional scaffold for generating cell or protein assemblies. This degradable scaffold can be applied to various types of cells. Also disclosed are methods of treating a condition by implanting the protein or cell assembly prepared according to the method described herein."

The patent was filed on May 24, 2022, under Appl...