ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,509, issued on June 3, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Magnetically templated tissue engineering scaffolds and methods of making and using the magnetically templated tissue engineering scaffolds" was invented by Carlos Rinaldi (Gainesville, Fla.), Christine E. Schmidt (Gainesville, Fla.), Christopher Lacko (Gainesville, Fla.), Zin Khaing (Lake Forest Park, Wash.) and Andrew Garcia (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides magnetically templated tissue scaffolds, methods of making the magnetically templated tissue scaffolds, and various methods of ...