US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 23 for "Porous polymer scaffolds, and methods of making and using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,369, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Porous polymer scaffolds, and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Tejal A. Desai (San Francisco), Ryan Chang (San Francisco) and Jasper Z. Williams (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffolds having macropores interconnected with micorpores are provided. Tissue grafts that include the PCL scaffold having therapeutic cells encapsulated within the macropores are also provided. Also provided are methods of making the PCL scaffold and the tissue graft, and methods of transplanting ...