US Patent Issued to Heraeus Medical on July 21 for "Two-component system for the in situ preparation of an artificial cartilage" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,801, issued on July 21, was assigned to Heraeus Medical GmbH (Wehrheim, Germany).

"Two-component system for the in situ preparation of an artificial cartilage" was invented by Thomas Kluge (Wehrheim, Germany), Christian Wahnes (Wehrheim, Germany) and Harro Antheunis (Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a two-component system for the in situ preparation of a polymer network by polymerizing acrylate monomers in the presence of a redox initiator couple comprising an activator and an initiator, the system comprising -a first container with a first component, which first component comprises t...