ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,070, issued on May 13, was assigned to GEBR. BRASSELER GMBH & Co. KG (Lemgo, Germany).

"Antibacterial implant coating composition, method of implant coating and antibacterial coated implant" was invented by Anne Seiffert (Braunschweig, Germany), Henning Menzel (Lehrte, Germany), Michael Kullmer (Lemgo, Germany), Hans-Christoph Schwarz (Bad Salzuflen, Germany), Meike Stiesch (Hannover, Germany), Andreas Winkel (Hannover, Germany) and Jasmin Grischke (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an antibacterial implant coating composition including a graft copolymer comprising a (meth)acrylic acid-based ba...