US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Oct. 21 for "Mechanically stable and high cell density honeycomb retinal scaffold design for transplantation therapy of photoreceptor cells and retinal pigment epithelium" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,595, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Mechanically stable and high cell density honeycomb retinal scaffold design for transplantation therapy of photoreceptor cells and retinal pigment epithelium" was invented by Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wis.), Inkyu Lee (Madison, Wis.), Juhwan Lee (Madison, Wis.), Michael Phillips (Stoughton, Wis.), David Gamm (Waunakee, Wis.) and Shaoqin Gong (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photoreceptor scaffolds that can be used for transplantation of organized photoreceptor tissue, with or without retinal pigment epithelial cells, which may...