US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for customizing mechanical strength in stimuli-responsive bioabsorbable materials" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,914, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for customizing mechanical strength in stimuli-responsive bioabsorbable materials" was invented by Peyton Hopson (Cincinnati), Brody Frost (Fairfield, Ohio), Madelaine Franzoni (Cincinnati) and Michael J. Vendely (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes a bioabsorbable material configured to be delivered to tissue. The material includes a shape-memory polymer compressible in a delivery configuration and configured to swell within a predetermined period of time. The shape-memory polymer incl...