ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,019, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to WENZHOU INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Zhejiang, China).
"Bioflexible elastomer intestinal anastomosis stent based on PTMC-b-PEG-b-PTMC copolymer, and preparation method" was invented by Changcan Shi (Wenzhou, China), Xujian Li (Wenzhou, China), Luqi Pan (Wenzhou, China), Zhixiao Ji (Wenzhou, China) and Xiao Yang (Wenzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioflexible elastomer intestinal anastomosis stent based on a PTMC-b-PEG-b-PTMC copolymer, and a preparation method. Biocompatible degradable polymer medical materials, i.e., PTMC and PEG, are selected, an electr...