ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,959, issued on April 22, was assigned to Meril Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (Gujarat, India).

"Method of manufacturing medical implant" was invented by Pramod Kumar Minocha (Gujarat, India), Deveshkumar Mahendralal Kothwala (Gujarat, India) and Arpit Pradipkumar Dave (Silvassa, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an implant is disclosed. The method includes preparing a wax template assembly based upon anatomical characteristics of an implantation site. Post formation of the template assembly, a lamination layer is provided over the template assembly resulting in a laminated template assembly. The lamination layer is...