US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on June 2 for "Systems and methods for selective coating removal for resorbable metal medical devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,891, issued on June 2, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for selective coating removal for resorbable metal medical devices" was invented by Elia Beniash (Mt. Lebanon, Pa.) and Avinash Jagannath Patil (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to self-assembled organosilane coatings for resorbable medical implant devices. The coatings can be prepared from coating compositions containing organosilane and can be applied to metal or metal alloy substrates. Prior to applying the coatings, the surfaces of the substrates can be pre...