ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,616, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo) and Kyushu University National University Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Composition and medical device with cured film" was invented by Yosuke Yamamoto (Minami-ashigara, Japan), Yuta Shigenoi (Minami-ashigara, Japan), Atsushi Sugasaki (Minami-ashigara, Japan), Masaru Tanaka (Fukuoka, Japan) and Shingo Kobayashi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a composition which is used to form a cured film that is disposed on a medical device and a medical device with a cured film, which are capable of suppressing both the adhesion of platelets an...