ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,928, issued on May 27, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).
"Enthesis healing" was invented by Robert Z. Tashjian (Salt Lake City), Peter N. Chalmers (Salt Lake City), T. Wade Fallin (Hyde Park, Utah) and James M. Hotaling (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices and methods for improving healing of an enthesis. An effective amount of a composition comprising one or more sex steroids and/or sex steroid equivalents is locally administered at the site of a repaired enthesis. The composition causes upregulation of one or more chondrogenic, angiogenic, and/or tendon modulati...