ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,669, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Porous biologically compatible scaffold structure" was invented by Anne Plachowietz (Palo Alto, Calif.), Junhua Wei (Mountain View, Calif.), Gabriel Iftime (Dublin, Calif.) and Joerg Martini (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three dimensional biological scaffold structure that includes a biologically compatible material that forms walls of multiple pores. The pores have a range of pore sizes including a pore size of less than 50 micro metre and a pore size of greater than 100 micro metre and also including pores having one or more intermediate pore s...