ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,417, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ming Chi University of Technology (New Taipei, Taiwan) and CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, LINKOU (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Glass-ceramic composite material" was invented by Pin-Yi Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Po-Liang Lai (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kuei-Chih Feng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chi-Shun Tu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chi-Yun Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Jie Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shyang-Yih Kung (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Guan-Yi Hung (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a glass-ceramic composite material, which is a composite material with degradability and oste...