US Patent Issued to INTERSURGICAL on Aug. 4 for "Sealing members" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,454, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INTERSURGICAL AG (Vaduz, Liechtenstein).

"Sealing members" was invented by Martin David Spayne (Berkshire, Great Britain), Derek Anthony Mclaughlin (Berkshire, Great Britain), Simon Robert Payne (Berkshire, Great Britain), Matthew James William Leary (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Mark Jennings (Berkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of manufacturing a sealing member (42). The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a mould having a cavity, a polymer injection port and a gas inlet port (38); (b) injecting a polymer and a blowing agent through the p...