US Patent Issued to Meril Life Sciences PVT on Sept. 23 for "Process for prevention of degradation and degeneration of tissue used in bioprosthesis" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,994, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Meril Life Sciences PVT LTD (Vapi, India).

"Process for prevention of degradation and degeneration of tissue used in bioprosthesis" was invented by Deveshkumar Mahendralal Kothwala (Surat, India), Amirhamzah Mahmadiqbal Shaikh (Valsad, India) and Pramod Kumar Minocha (Vapi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a process for treatment to avert enzymatic degradation and tissue degeneration of bovine pericardium tissue, used for making bioprosthesis for implant application, comprising the steps of collecting and harvesting raw bovine pericardial tissue; chemically cross-linkin...