US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, SHAPE MEMORY MEDICAL on Feb. 24 for "Radiopaque thermoplastic polymer" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,585, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) and SHAPE MEMORY MEDICAL INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Radiopaque thermoplastic polymer" was invented by Grace Fletcher (Houston), Landon D. Nash (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kendal Ezell (Tomball, Texas) and Duncan J. Maitland (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a polymer composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer that: (a) is bonded to iodine, (b) includes a vinyl group, and (c) includes urethane linkages. Other embodiments are described herein."

The patent was filed on March 3, 2023, under Applicat...