US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Viscoelastic hydrogel regulation of organoid patterning and vascularization" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,815, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Viscoelastic hydrogel regulation of organoid patterning and vascularization" was invented by Changchun Zeng (Tallahassee, Fla.), Yan Li (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Xingchi Chen (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are spinal cord models including a cell scaffold including methacrylated hyaluronic acid (HAMA) and dopamine-modified hyaluronic acid (HA-Cat), and a spinal cord spheroid or organoid or a fragment thereof cultured on the cell scaffold. Said spinal cord spheroids or organoids or fragme...