US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on June 30 for "Method for making a coated stainless steel implant" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,708, issued on June 30, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for making a coated stainless steel implant" was invented by B. Rabindran Jermy (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Vijaya Ravinayagam (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a silver-silicalite coating on a surface of a stainless-steel substrate is provided. The method includes mixing metakaolin with an aqueous solution of NaOH to form a first mixture. The method further includes mixing silica gel and silver nitrate with the first mixture to form a second mixture. Furthermore, the method includes mixi...