Patents by Inventor Christelle M. Lhommeau

Christelle M. Lhommeau has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Porous polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering
    Patent number: 6337198
    Abstract: Biodegradable and biocompatible porous scaffolds characterized by a substantially continuous polymer phase, having a highly interconnected bimodal distribution of open pore sizes with rounded large pores of about 50 to about 500 microns in diameter and rounded small pores less than 20 microns in diameter, wherein the small pores are aligned in an orderly linear fashion within the walls of the large pores. Methods of preparing polymeric tissue scaffolds are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University
    Inventors: Howard B. Levene, Christelle M. Lhommeau, Joachim B Kohn
  • Porous polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering
    Patent number: 6103255
    Abstract: Biodegradable and biocompatible porous scaffolds characterized by a substantially continuous polymer phase, having a highly interconnected bimodal distribution of open pore sizes with rounded large pores of about 50 to about 500 microns in diameter and rounded small pores less than 20 microns in diameter, wherein the small pores are aligned in an orderly linear fashion within the walls of the large pores. Methods of preparing polymeric tissue scaffolds are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University
    Inventors: Howard B. Levene, Christelle M. Lhommeau, Joachim B Kohn