US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology on July 15 for "Conductive scaffolds for guided neural network formation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,311, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.).

"Conductive scaffolds for guided neural network formation" was invented by Hongjun Wang (Millburn, N.J.), Haoyu Wang (Lyndhurst, N.J.) and Juan Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to the manufacture of conductive scaffolds of micro and/or nanofibers with the help of different printing techniques (e.g., near-field electrostatic printing, inkjet printing), such scaffolds enabling the formation of two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) neural networks to mimic the native c...