US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on July 29 for "Bioactive granular hydrogel scaffolds and use thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,138, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Bioactive granular hydrogel scaffolds and use thereof" was invented by Amir Sheikhi (University Park, Pa.), Arian Jaberi (University Park, Pa.) and Mohammad Zaman Ataie (University Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a method of forming a granular hydrogel scaffold (GHS). The method comprises converting polymers to form hydrogel microparticles (HMP) via a first crosslinking and assembling the HMP to form GHS via non-light-mediated crosslinking with or without coating or embedding them with any biologies or na...