Table 3.

List of Patents Surveyed for Scaffoldless Tissue Engineering Techniques

Patent	Inventor	Intended Application
Issued, US 8143055 B2 (2012)	Forgacs et al. (66)	Self-assembled Multi-cellular bodies for various TE applications
Issued, WO2005012512 A1, EP 1651756 B1 (2005)	Nakamura et al. (67)	Musculoskeletal interfaces
Application, WO2007115336 A3 (2008)	Athanasiou et al. (68)	Fibrocartilage tissue engineering
Issued, US8097455 (2012)	Larkin et al. (69)	Musculo-tendon junction tissue engineering
Application, WO2011157057 A1 (2011)	Chan et al. (70)	Complex-tissue engineering