Patents by Inventor Roger Chan

Roger Chan 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).

  • MICRO- AND NANO-PATTERNED SURFACE FEATURES TO REDUCE IMPLANT FOULING AND REGULATE WOUND HEALING
    Publication number: 20090093879
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides a medical implant with implant surfaces that are exposed to body tissue when the medical implant is inserted into a body of a recipient. The implant has a micro- or a nano-sized pattern on at least a portion of the implant surfaces. Optionally, the micro- or nano-sized pattern may be a periodic (or “repeating”) pattern. Further, the micro- or nano-sized pattern may have geometric features, such as grooves, circles, triangles, rectangles, pentagons and hexagons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Debra Wawro, Karen Pawlowski, Robert Magnusson, Peter Roland, Roger Chan