US Patent Issued to ADOCIA on Sept. 23 for "Hydrogels for cell therapy" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,327, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ADOCIA (Lyons, France).

"Hydrogels for cell therapy" was invented by Gerard Soula (Meyzieu, France), Alexandre Geissler (Meyzieu, France), Nicolas Laurent (Miribel, France) and Baptiste Plancq (Saint Maurice de Beynost, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crosslinked dextran polymer, bearing carboxylate groups, wherein at least two saccharidic units of dextran belonging to two different polymer chains are covalently linked by at least one at least divalent radical, this at least divalent radical being a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl radical including at least 15 carbon atoms and option...