ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,186, issued on March 31, was assigned to BIOCOMPATIBILITY INNOVATION S.R.L. (Padua, Italy).
"Method for inactivating xenoantigens in biological tissues" was invented by Filippo Naso (Ospedaletto Euganeo, Italy) and Alessandro Gandaglia (Rubano, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for inactivating xenoantigens in biological tissues, particularly in tissues that can be used to manufacture bioprosthetic substitutes and/or in bioprosthetic substitutes that are already prepared and intended for human or veterinary clinical use. The method entails the following steps: providing a solution based on phenolic compounds, polyphen...