US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET SAINT ETIENNE, CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE on Oct. 20 for "Method for preparing an allograft or xenograft material from a crystalline lens capsule" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,225, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET SAINT ETIENNE (Saint Etienne, France) and CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE (Saint Etienne, France).

"Method for preparing an allograft or xenograft material from a crystalline lens capsule" was invented by Philippe Gain (Lyons, France), Gilles Thuret (St Bonnet les Oules, France) and Zhiguo He (Saint Etienne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a process for preparing an allograft or xenograft material from a lens capsule, wherein the process comprises the following steps: Decellularizing (200) a lens capsule to obtain a decellularized lens capsul...