US Patent Issued to SOFRADIM PRODUCTION on May 26 for "Prosthesis for hernia repair" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,139, issued on May 26, was assigned to SOFRADIM PRODUCTION (Trevoux, France).

"Prosthesis for hernia repair" was invented by Sebastien Francois (Jassans-Riottier, France), Michel Therin (Lyons, France) and Nicolas Prost (Orlienas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a prosthesis (1) for hernia repair comprising a reinforcement layer (2), a first barrier layer (3) of anti-adhesion material covering at least a part of a surface of the reinforcement layer, and a second barrier layer of anti-adhesion material covering a remaining part of the surface of the reinforcement layer, the second barrier layer be...