ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,077, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE 2ND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL AND YUYING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Method for constructing bone morphogenetic protein slow-release system" was invented by Liyan Shen (Zhejiang, China), Wenfei Ni (Zhejiang, China), Yanlin Chen (Zhejiang, China) and Chenqiang Jin (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To solve the problem that an excellent carrier material is absent in a storage and use process of the bone morphogenetic protein, based on self-polymerization universality of dopamine, the positively-charged polyelectrolyte, the negatively-charged p...