US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on March 18 for "Wavy multi-component vascular grafts with biomimetic mechanical properties, antithrombogenicity, and endothelial cell affinity" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,496, issued on March 18, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Wavy multi-component vascular grafts with biomimetic mechanical properties, antithrombogenicity, and endothelial cell affinity" was invented by Lih-Sheng Turng (Madison, Wis.) and Hao-Yang Mi (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are novel wavy, multi-component vascular grafts (WMVGs) with a wavy inner layer of rigid biopolymer fibers and an outer layer of elastic biopolymer fibers and a method for preparing WMVGs via electrospinning using a special assembled collector. The fabricated WMVGs closely mimic the non-l...