US Patent Issued on April 8 for "Method of plasticizing and densifying hydrophilic polymeric biomaterials and hydrophilic polymeric biomaterials" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,929, issued on April 8.

"Method of plasticizing and densifying hydrophilic polymeric biomaterials and hydrophilic polymeric biomaterials" was invented by Dick Sandberg (Vaxjo, Sweden) and Benedikt Neyses (Skelleftea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of plasticizing and densifying hydrophilic polymeric biomaterial, said hydrophilic polymeric biomaterial having at least one surface, comprising the steps of softening the surface of the hydrophilic polymeric biomaterial to be compressed; compressing the hydrophilic polymeric biomaterial by applying an elevated pressure onto the softened surf...