US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut on Sept. 16 for "Extrusion-based three-dimensional printed soft tissue mimic and method of manufacture thereof" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,715, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Extrusion-based three-dimensional printed soft tissue mimic and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by Liisa Tiina Kuhn (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is article comprising a first surface; and a second surface opposedly disposed to the first surface; where a space between the first surface and the second surface comprises a grid that comprises a plurality of first struts that have an average orientation in a first direction in a first plane with a first average spacing between neighboring first str...