ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,205, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TEIJIN Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Warp-knitted fabric and medical material" was invented by Shintaro Nemoto (Takatsuki, Japan), Hideaki Yamada (Fukui, Japan), Jun Sakurai (Fukui, Japan), Kazuteru Kohno (Osaka, Japan), Masaya Ito (Osaka, Japan) and Atsuko Onishi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a warp-knitted fabric and a medical material that can be simultaneously extended in all directions by causing thread made of a second bioabsorbable material to be absorbed in a living body over time and in which the degree of extension can be increased. The present in...