ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,766, issued on March 4, was assigned to OSSIO LTD. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Continuous-fiber reinforced biocomposite medical implants" was invented by Orahn Preiss-Bloom (Zichron Yakov, Israel), Taly Pnina Lindner (Savyon, Israel), Eyal Epstein (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Danielle Poreh (Herzliyya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical implant comprising a plurality of biocomposite layers, each layer comprising a polymer and a plurality of uni-directionally aligned continuous reinforcement fibers. The medical implant is suitable for load-bearing orthopedic implant applications and comprises one or more biocomposite materials where s...