US Patent Issued to Tutogen Medical on July 15 for "Xenograft soft tissue implants and methods of making" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,660, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tutogen Medical GmbH (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany).

"Xenograft soft tissue implants and methods of making" was invented by Arnd Wilhelmi (Forchheim, Germany), Silke Schreiner (Erlangen, Germany), Jake Michaelson (Gainesville, Fla.), Steven Moore (Apex, N.C.), Jennifer Faleris (Lowell, Fla.) and Anne Reinlein (Bamberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed to the field of implants comprising soft tissue for use in implantation in humans. The soft tissue implants of the present application are preferably obtained from xenograft sources. The present applicati...