US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Sept. 16 for "Polymer filament reinforced scaffold for partial meniscus regeneration" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,856, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Polymer filament reinforced scaffold for partial meniscus regeneration" was invented by Salim Ghodbane (Piscataway, N.J.), Charles Gatt Jr. (Skillman, N.J.) and Michael Dunn (Manalapan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a resorbable scaffold for regeneration of meniscal tissue is disclosed. The method includes fabricating a polymer filament network using 3D printing in accordance with a digital model of the polymer filament network, such that the polymer filament network will include a first plurali...