ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,196, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to 3-D Matrix Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Preventing biological tissue adhesion" was invented by Satoru Kobayashi (Chigasaki, Japan), Eun Seok Gil (Acton, Mass.) and Lisa Spirio (S. Weymouth, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and materials for mitigating biological tissue adhesion are described herein. One method for mitigating adhesion to a biological tissue includes administering an effective amount of a self-assembling peptide solution to the biological tissue, wherein the self-assembling peptide is between about 7 amino acids and 32 amino acids in length and the self-assembling peptide solution fo...