Patents by Inventor Robert P. Lamberton

Robert P. Lamberton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Neovascularization
    Patent number: 4699141
    Abstract: Neovascularization is caused by placing a ligated blood vessel, preferably in an artery, in a sponge made of a material permitting vessel growth therein and therethrough, the material preferably being an acrylic copolymer carrying therein collagen and thereon heparin and fibrinogen, there being also in a preferred embodiment a cell receptacle with a molecular weight cutoff permeable walls within the sponge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Rhode Island Hospital
    Inventors: Robert P. Lamberton, Milton H. Lipsky