ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,223, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).
"Biocompatible Mg-P coating on surface of zinc- based biomedical material, and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Jia Pei (Shanghai), Boxuan Feng (Shanghai), Ke Zhou (Shanghai) and Guangyin Yuan (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biocompatible Mg-P coating on the surface of a zinc-based biomedical material, and a preparation method and use thereof are disclosed. In the method, zinc and a zinc alloy are first subjected to surface pretreatment and then soaked in a phosphate solution at a constant temperature to form the Mg-P coati...