ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,702, issued on April 14, was assigned to NIPRO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Bone regeneration material" was invented by Osamu Suzuki (Sendai, Japan), Yoshikatsu Sugahara (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Urai (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Nakamura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone regeneration material according to the present disclosure includes at least a composite of octacalcium phosphate (OCP) particles and gelatin, and is a porous body having a plurality of pores. The particle size of the octacalcium phosphate particles is 1 micro metre or more but less than 1 mm, and the molecular weight of the gelatin is in the range of 30 kDa ...