US Patent Issued to Aesculap on May 5 for "Method for surface treatment and/or production of a medical product, and a medical product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,168, issued on May 5, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Method for surface treatment and/or production of a medical product, and a medical product" was invented by Andreas Gassner (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Lukas Waidelich (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical product and a method of surface treatment and/or manufacture of the medical product. The method includes the step of electrochemically etching the medical product. The medical product can include a metal or alloy and have one or more of the following features: a pitting corrosion potential of 100 mV to 1200 mV, a contact angle of 90deg to ...