US Patent Issued to I-SENS on July 8 for "Non-mixed amphiphilic thermoplastic polyurethane, method for producing same, and implantable medical device including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,676, issued on July 8, was assigned to I-SENS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Non-mixed amphiphilic thermoplastic polyurethane, method for producing same, and implantable medical device including same" was invented by Hyunseo Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Bona Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Young Jea Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Geunhee Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an amphiphilic polymer copolymer composed of a prepolymer polymerized by reacting polyol (P) and diisocyanate (R) and a chain-extender comprising one or more hydrophilic or hydrophobic functional groups (E1 or E2) and a meth...