ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,236, issued on Oct. 21.
"Bioactive implant" was invented by Ahmed Samir Ibrahim Bakry (Alexandria, Egypt), Mona Aly Abdel Latif Abbassy (Alexandria, Egypt), Walaa Magdy Abdulhamed Ahmed (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Amr Ahmed Ahmed Azhari (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Khaled Ahmed Mostafa Fawaz (Cairo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioactive implant has a body formed from PEEK and includes a porous surface layer treated with sulfuric acid to form tiny holes that extend into the implant. Borate glass particles are adhered to the surface of the bioactive implant using a light curable 10-methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate (10-MDP) resin...