US Patent Issued to Ethicon, Cilag GmbH International on April 7 for "Absorbable poly(p-dioxanone) pellets made from slow-to-crystallize ground resin and its fines" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,692, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.) and Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Absorbable poly(p-dioxanone) pellets made from slow-to-crystallize ground resin and its fines" was invented by Sasa Andjelic (Nanuet, N.Y.), Jitendra Patel (Raritan, N.J.), Marc Wisnudel (Raritan, N.J.) and Luke Orzechowski (Raritan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods for processing absorbable, slow-to-crystallize poly(p-dioxanone) ground resin and its fines utilizing a twin-screw extruder apparatus to produce uniform pellets. Advantageously, the ground resin materials re...