Patents Assigned to Carnegie Mellon
  • Assembled scaffolds for three dimensional cell culturing and tissue generation
    Patent number: 6143293
    Abstract: A three-dimensional scaffold for tissue generation. Mechanical fasteners allow layered and volumetric scaffold sections, which may be pre-seeded with cells and/or growth factors, to be assembled into a heterogeneous generated tissue for implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignees: Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh
    Inventors: Lee E. Weiss, Jay Wynn Calvert