US Patent Issued to ZEUS on March 17 for "Crosslinked PTFE" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,333, issued on March 17, was assigned to ZEUS COMPANY LLC (Orangeburg, S.C.).

"Crosslinked PTFE" was invented by Robert L. Ballard (Lexington, S.C.), John Richard Campanelli (West Columbia, S.C.), Patrick Cooper (Orangeburg, S.C.), Justin A. Marro (Orangeburg, S.C.), Douglas Lee Tourville (Orangeburg, S.C.) and Bhavya Singhi (Orangeburg, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates generally to tubes, such as thin walled catheter liners with small wall thicknesses (e.g., less than 1 mm), including crosslinked fluoropolymers, e.g., crosslinked poly(tetrafluoroethylene). The disclosure further provides methods o...