US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University, Boston Medical Center on May 27 for "Injection applicator for tissue markers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,800, issued on May 27, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston) and Boston Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Injection applicator for tissue markers" was invented by Mark W. Grinstaff (Brookline, Mass.), Boris Nicolas Bloch (Brookline, Mass.) and Jonah Kaplan (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventions provided herein relate to injection applicators, tissue markers and uses thereof, e.g., to mark a target tissue site (e.g., a biopsy site in a breast tissue) or to produce a cell scaffold. The tissue markers described herein are designed to be resistant to fast migration (e.g., immediate migration after imp...