US 11,857,405 B2
Medical implant based on nanocellulose
Falk Rauchfuss, Jena (DE); Utz Settmacher, Jena (DE); Dieter Klemm, Weimar (DE); Wolfgang Fried, Jena (DE); Thomas Richter, Jena (DE); Katrin Petzold-Welcke, Bad Sulza OT Wickerstedt (DE); and Carola Ruhe, Dessau (DE)
Assigned to Universitätsklinikum Jena, Jena (DE)
Filed by Universitätsklinikum Jena, Jena (DE); and KKF UG, Jena (DE)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/526,521.
Application 17/526,521 is a division of application No. 15/749,563, abandoned, previously published as PCT/EP2016/068580, filed on Aug. 3, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 15179884 (EP), filed on Aug. 5, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0071758 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/04 (2013.01); A61L 31/14 (2006.01); A61L 31/10 (2006.01); A61L 31/00 (2006.01); C08L 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/04 (2013.01) [A61L 31/005 (2013.01); A61L 31/10 (2013.01); A61L 31/146 (2013.01); A61F 2002/041 (2013.01); A61L 2400/12 (2013.01); A61L 2420/08 (2013.01); C08L 1/02 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for producing a medical implant, comprising:
providing a microbial cellulose tube, comprising a wall having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the wall comprises several layers of microbial cellulose, wherein said layers are concentric to a longitudinal axis of the tube; and introducing a stent into the microbial cellulose tube to form the medical implant.