US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on May 26 for "Method for the production of crosslinked and optionally shaped tissue with selective adjustment of thickness, shape and/or flexibility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,145, issued on May 26, was assigned to BIOTRONIK AG (Buelach, Switzerland).

"Method for the production of crosslinked and optionally shaped tissue with selective adjustment of thickness, shape and/or flexibility" was invented by Alexander Rzany (Nuremberg, Germany), Christine Mueller (Erlangen, Germany), Nina Foh (Forchheim, Germany), Judith Flore Solowiej (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany) and Bernhard Hensel (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for chemically crosslinking and optionally shaping (including thickness reduction) substantially non-cross-linked tissue, in particular biological tissue, using a permeable...