US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on Feb. 24 for "Ultrahigh ductility, novel Mg-Li based alloys for biomedical applications" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,454, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Ultrahigh ductility, novel Mg-Li based alloys for biomedical applications" was invented by Prashant N. Kumta (Pittsburgh), Jingyao Wu (Pittsburgh) and Oleg Velikokhatnyi (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes compositions including magnesium-lithium alloys containing various alloying elements for medical implant devices. The devices are constructed of the compositions or have applied thereto a coating formed therefrom. Within the structure of the magnesium-lithium alloy, there is a ...