US Patent Issued to Japan Medical Device Technology on April 1 for "Surface-modified magnesium alloy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,395, issued on April 1, was assigned to Japan Medical Device Technology Co. Ltd. (Kumamoto, Japan).

"Surface-modified magnesium alloy" was invented by Shuzo Yamashita (Kumamoto, Japan), Makoto Sasaki (Kumamoto, Japan) and Akira Wada (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a magnesium alloy with improved corrosion resistance by surface modification, and a production method thereof. (1) The surface-modified magnesium alloy comprising: a magnesium alloy having an arbitrary shape; a magnesium fluoride layer formed by fluorination of the surface of the magnesium alloy; and a diamond-like carbon layer formed on the magne...