US Patent Issued to Vactronix Scientific on Feb. 24 for "Method of making topographical features and patterns on a surface of a medical device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,210, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Vactronix Scientific LLC (San Antonio).

"Method of making topographical features and patterns on a surface of a medical device" was invented by Scott P. Carpenter (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Poor (Fremont, Calif.) and Julio C. Palmaz (Napa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming topographical features on an article, for example on a medical devices that has a surface configured to promote the migration of cells onto the surface of the medical device. In particular, the resulting surface of the medical device has a noncontiguous pattern of topographical features formed therein o...