US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Feb. 3 for "Growth factor transduced cell-loaded ceramic scaffold for bone regeneration and repair" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,213, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Growth factor transduced cell-loaded ceramic scaffold for bone regeneration and repair" was invented by Jay R. Lieberman (Los Angeles), William Pannell (Los Angeles), Yong Chen (Los Angeles), Xuan Song (Los Angeles) and Sofia Bougioukli (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for repairing a bone defect of a patient includes providing a ceramic scaffold configured for filling the bone defect, loading the scaffold with growth factor transduced cells incorporating a gene that encodes a growth factor essential for bone formation, placing...