US Patent Issued to University of Wyoming on Aug. 26 for "Localized immunosuppression of allografts for peripheral nerve repair" (Wyoming Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,950, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Localized immunosuppression of allografts for peripheral nerve repair" was invented by Jared Bushman (Laramie, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to restorative solutions for segmental peripheral nerve (PN) defects using allografted PNs for stimulating PN repair. More specifically, embodiments described herein provide for localized immunosuppression (LIS) surrounding PN allografts as an alternative to systemically suppressing a patient's entire immune system. Methods include localized release of immunosuppressive (ISV)...