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Innovotech Inc. Reports Issue of European Patent for Antimicrobial Silver Periodate Compounds Coated onto Polymers for Medical Devices
(TheNewswire) 7 January 2025 – TheNewswire - Edmonton, Alberta, - Innovo...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Innovotech Inc. Reports Issue of European Patent for Antimicrobial Silver Periodate Compounds Coated onto Polymers for Medical Devices\n\n\n (TheNewswire)\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 7 January 2025 –\n \n\n TheNewswire -\n \n\n Edmonton, Alberta, -\n \n\n Innovotech Inc. (TSX-V: IOT) (“Innovotech” or the\n“Company”) is pleased to report that its invention for the use of\nantimicrobial silver compounds, including InnovoSIL™-1 silver, in a\nvariety of formulations, was issued as European Patent No. 3 804 521\non January 1, 2025.\n \n\n\n\n The patent includes claims for medical devices with\nInnovotech’s active silver compounds coated onto or incorporated\ninto them, focusing on inclusion of the InnovoSIL™-1 silver into a\npolymer or hydrogel surface layer or layers.  The applications\ninclude catheters, cannulae, needles, stents, guide wires, implant\ndevices, filters, surgical or medical instruments, endotracheal tubes,\ngastroenteric feeding tubes, shunts, condoms, oxygenator and kidney\nmembranes, gloves, pacemaker leads, wound dressings or gels, pins,\nplates, screws, artificial joints, and more.\n \n\n\n\n InnovoSIL™-1 silver, as well as related compounds\ncovered by this patent, has broad spectrum activity against bacterial\nand fungal biofilms associated with human, animal, and plant\ninfections.  InnovoSIL™-1 silver also effective against viruses and\nspores, and provides a potential solution to the growing challenges\nassociated with antibiotic resistance, due to multiple unique\nmechanisms of action.\n \n\n\n\n The issue of this patent allows Innovotech to licence\nthese applications of antimicrobial silvers to industry partners in\nEurope interested in enhancing the antiplanktonic, antiviral,\nanti-adherence, or antibiofilm properties of their products.\n \n\n\n\n About Innovotech Inc.:\n \n\n\n\n Innovotech is a Canadian biotechnology company owning\nproprietary intellectual property, conducting contract research, and\nowning and providing proprietary devices for testing in multiple\napplications in microbiology, and can be found online at\n \n\n www.innovotech.ca\n \n\n .\n \n\n\n\n Craig Milne, CEO\n \n\n Innovotech Inc.\n \n\n\n\n +1-604-239-1819        [email protected]\n \n\n\n\n This docum...