US Patent Issued to University of Galway on March 24 for "Implantable biomaterial, and method of manufacturing thereof" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,747, issued on March 24, was assigned to University of Galway (Galway, Ireland).

"Implantable biomaterial, and method of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Elizabeth Sander (Galway, Ireland), William Hickey (Tipperary, Ireland), Robert Pendlebury (Mayo, Ireland), Faisal Sharif (Galway, Ireland), Brendan Marrinan (Galway, Ireland) and Tony O'Halloran (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an implantable biomaterial comprising the steps of providing a polyether-diisocyanate prepolymer, reacting the prepolymer with one or more chain extender molecules typically including benzene 1,4-diol to form a mould...