US Patent Issued to Orthocell on Oct. 27 for "Nanoparticle-coated collagen implant" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,473, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Orthocell Ltd. (W.A., Australia).

"Nanoparticle-coated collagen implant" was invented by Ming-Hao Zheng (City Beach, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of producing an implantable collagen-containing medical device comprising the step of coating said collagen-containing medical device with metal microparticles and/or metal nanoparticles, wherein said step of coating said collagen-containing medical device is by sonication such that the collagen-containing medical device has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties on implantation compared to the me...