US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on Oct. 14 for "Medical molded article, medical device, and nerve guidance conduit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,598, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Medical molded article, medical device, and nerve guidance conduit" was invented by Kenichi Harimoto (Otsu, Japan) and Hirokazu Sakaguchi (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a medical molded article including a bioabsorbable polyester and having excellent followability to a living body, and the present invention is a medical molded article including a bioabsorbable polyester, the medical molded article having an amount-of-work-holding rate of 55% or more, the amount-of-work-holding rate defined as a rate of an amount of work...