ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,195, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.), The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIR (Washington).

"Nerve repair scaffolds having high microchannel volume and methods for making the same" was invented by Jeffrey S. Sakamoto (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dena Shahriari (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Mark H. Tuszynski (La Jolla, Calif.), Wendy Campana (La Jolla, Calif.) and Yacov Koffler (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue scaffolds for neural tissue growth have a plurality of m...