US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Jan. 28 for "System and methods for laser-assisted nanotexturing and silver immobilization on titanium implant surfaces" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,012, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"System and methods for laser-assisted nanotexturing and silver immobilization on titanium implant surfaces" was invented by Rahim Rahimi (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Vidhya Selvamani (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an implantable device is provided. The method includes laser nano-texturing a titanium surface. The method further includes applying an aqueous silver ion solution to form a silver ion complex on the nano-textured titanium surface. The method also includes reducing, using laser-assisted ...