Patent ID: 9545302
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61K,A61L,B29C,B29K,B29L,B33Y,C12M,C12N

Claim:
1. A computerized skin printing system comprising; a quantity of living donor skin cells harvested from a non-wound area of a patient having a to-be-treated wound or tissue defect; a three-dimensional printer that processes the quantity of living donor skin cells, wherein the three-dimensional printer is under control of a controller connected to the three-dimensional printer; an imaging device; a sizing grid projected onto the wound or tissue defect while the imaging device is being operated; a computer that performs steps of receiving a set of images taken by the imaging device of the wound or tissue defect of the patient and processing the imaged wound or tissue defect into a set of skin-printing instructions that are provided to the controller connected to the three-dimensional printer, and operating the three-dimensional printer to construct a customized skin graft product useable to be auto-grafted onto the wound or tissue defect of the patient.