ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,359, issued on April 7.
"Antimicrobial bone cement" was invented by Cyrus Talebpour (Richmond Hill, Canada), Houshang Darvishi Alamdari (Kirkland, Canada), Hossein Salimnia (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Rahul Vaidya (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of the present invention is incorporating nanostructured antimicrobial silver perovskite particles into bone cement made of Poly Methyl Methacrylate (PMMA). This is accomplished by mixing the nanostructured antimicrobial particles with the cement powder prior to the addition of liquid monomer. The spontaneous and dispersion of the antimicrobial particles i...