US Patent Issued to Nagaoka University of Technology, Altech on Sept. 30 for "Crystalline film of octacalcium phosphate and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,751, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nagaoka University of Technology (Niigata, Japan) and Altech Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Crystalline film of octacalcium phosphate and method for producing the same" was invented by Motohiro Tagaya (Nagaoka, Japan), Yanni Zhou (Nagaoka, Japan), Zizhen Liu (Nagaoka, Japan), Yoshinori Matsuura (Saitama, Japan) and Isamu Arakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrophoresis of an ethanol dispersion of an octacalcium phosphate (OCP) crystal is performed to form a multilayer deposited film of the OCP crystal on a cathode (gold sensor) that is an electrode made of a conductive material such as gold....