US Patent Issued to Washington University on Dec. 9 for "Biomedical patches with aligned fibers" (Missouri, Ohio, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,061, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Biomedical patches with aligned fibers" was invented by Matthew R. MacEwan (St. Louis), Jingwei Xie (Chesapeake, Ohio), Zack Ray (St. Louis) and Younan Xia (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure of aligned (e.g., radially and/or polygonally aligned) fibers, and systems and methods for producing and using the same. One or more structures provided may be created using an apparatus that includes one or more first electrodes that define an area and/or partially circumscribe an area. For example, a single first electrode may enclose the area, or a plura...