US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on March 24 for "Biodegradable magnesium alloys" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,198, issued on March 24, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Biodegradable magnesium alloys" was invented by Manoj Gupta (Singapore), Gururaj Parande (Singapore), Vyasaraj Badarinath Manakari (Singapore), Raymond Chung Wen Wong (Singapore) and Somasundaram Prasadh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a biodegradable alloy of Formula (I): Mg-Zn-X, wherein X represents -Ca-Mn or -Dy-Sr, wherein Zn is about 0.1 wt % to about 3.0 wt %, Dy is about 0.1 wt % to about 0.7 wt %, Sr is about 0.1 wt % to about 0.9 wt %, Ca is about 0.1 wt % to about 1.5 wt %, Mn is about 0.1 wt ...