ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,198, issued on May 19, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).
"Anti-stick coatings including fluorophores" was invented by Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.), Teo Heng Jimmy Yang (Heath, Great Britain) and Riyad Moe (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure provide a medical device. The medical device includes a substrate. The medical device further includes a substantially transparent or translucent anti-stick coating disposed on a surface of the substrate. The anti-stick coating includes one or more fluorophores internally distributed in the anti-stick coating."
The p...