ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,620, issued on June 2, was assigned to Carbon Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Bioresorbable 3D printed adhesion barriers" was invented by Hardik Kabaria (Redwood City, Calif.), Eleanor R. Meyer (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Steven Kenneth Pollack (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesion barrier is comprised of, consists of, or consists essentially of a sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface. The sheet includes either (i) interconnected links or (ii) interconnected, vertically aligned, partitions. The links form pores or the partitions form pores, with the pores extending from the top surface through the bottom s...