ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,274, issued on April 1, was assigned to SELJIN CO.LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Medical implants containing surface modified with gold nanoparticles" was invented by Seil Sohn (Seoul, South Korea), Wan Kyu Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seong Jun Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides surface-modified medical implants having one of more layer of gold nanoparticles, wherein, for example, the surface of a medical implant body could be immobilized with a single of double layers of GNPs. The implants could have a superior biocompatibility and superior osteogenic differentiation."
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