ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,619, issued on May 20, was assigned to Foundry Therapeutics Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Polymer implants" was invented by Patrick H. Ruane (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Jackie Joe Hancock (Berkeley, Calif.), Koon Kiat Teu (Singapore), Daniel Boon Lim Seet (Singapore), Wei Li Lee (Singapore) and Honglei Wang (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to polymer implants. In some embodiments, the polymer implant may have a volume having minimum cross-sectional dimension of 400 micro metre. The polymer implant may be configured to be implanted within a mammalian body for at least 3 days without undergoing core...