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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2007
Applicants:
Thomas P. Hedman, Georgetown, TX (US);
Paul Slusarewicz, San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventors:
Thomas P. Hedman, Georgetown, TX (US);
Paul Slusarewicz, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Orthopeutics, L.P., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/39 (2006.01); C07K 14/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of treatment of native, non-denatured tissue to increase resistance to tearing, fissuring, rupturing, and/or delamination, comprising the step of: contacting at least a portion of the tissue with an effective amount of a reagent that increases crosslinks in the tissue.