US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 12 for "Methods for fabricating modular hydrogels from macromolecules with orthogonal physico-chemical responsivity" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,890, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods for fabricating modular hydrogels from macromolecules with orthogonal physico-chemical responsivity" was invented by Amir Sheikhi (State College, Pa.), Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles), Alireza Khademhosseini (Los Angeles) and Joseph de Rutte (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Despite the significant advances in designing injectable bulk hydrogels, the inability to control the pore interconnectivity and decoupling it from the matrix stiffness has tremendously limited the applicability of stiff, flowable hydrogels for 3D...