ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,849, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BIOTYX MEDICAL (SHENZHEN) CO LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Implantable device" was invented by Zhenjian Lin (Shenzhen, China), Jun Hu (Shenzhen, China), Hongtao Sun (Shenzhen, China), Li Qin (Shenzhen, China) and Deyuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable device including a matrix and a zinc-containing layer at least partially covering the substrate. The zinc-containing layer includes a zinc compound. The ratio of the mass of the zinc element in the zinc-containing layer to the surface area of the implantable device is 0.1-200 Mug/mm2. The average porosity of the z...