ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,218, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (Tianjin, China).

"Biological valve material, preparation method, and cross-linking agent" was invented by Zhi-Hong Wang (Tianjin, China), Jing Liu (Tianjin, China), Xi-Gang Leng (Tianjin, China), De-Ling Kong (Tianjin, China) and Yi-Bo Qin (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a biological valve material which is a swim bladder derived biological valve material. The present application also discloses a method for preparing the biological valve material, includes: decellularizing a...