US Patent Issued to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY on May 13 for "Advanced corrosion bioreactor testing apparatus" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,224, issued on May 13, was assigned to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Advanced corrosion bioreactor testing apparatus" was invented by Jeongmin Ahn (Manlius, N.Y.) and Thomas Welles (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing apparatus for evaluating a medical implant for electric potential oscillations that lead to corrosion. The testing apparatus uses a uniaxial load device having a mounting base for accepting a medical implant and orienting the implant along a predetermined axis, a support plate positioned under the uniaxial load device and moveable to apply a force to the implant, a load cell positioned above...