US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 26 for "Universal orthogonal network bioinks for three-dimensional bioprinting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,495, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Universal orthogonal network bioinks for three-dimensional bioprinting" was invented by Sarah C. Heilshorn (Mountain View, Calif.), Chris Lindsay (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sarah Hull (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of bioprinting a bioink printed structure and a bioprinted composition resulting from this method is provided. Biological cells are mixed with biomaterial inks. These biomaterial inks have a biopolymer backbone with grafted thereto a first bio-orthogonal chemical group. The mix...