US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on July 14 for "BioActive implant for reconstruction of bone defect, deformity, and NonUnion" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,543, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"BioActive implant for reconstruction of bone defect, deformity, and NonUnion" was invented by Yunzhi Yang (Stanford, Calif.), Sien Lin (Sha Tin, China), Seyedsina Moeinzadeh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Elaine Lui (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioactive orthopedic implant is provided defined as a rod with a surface and a treated surface area for increased surface area, a freeze-dried hydrophilic hydrogel network physically cross-linked via charged polymers and salt-ions onto the treated surfa...