ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,189, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bioventus LLC (Durham, N.C.).
"Osteoinductive bone implant including harvested demineralized bone and bone morphogenetic proteins bound thereto obtained from the same donor" was invented by Amit Prakash Govil (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various bioactive grafts and methods of making the same. In one embodiment, bone material is harvested from a donor. The harvested bone material is exposed to a lysing agent, the lysing agent configured to release growth factors and bioactive materials from cellular material of the harvested bone material. The harvested bone materi...