ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,478, issued on March 18, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Bioactive polymeric dressing for accelerated wound closure" was invented by Kaushal Rege (Chandler, Ariz.) and Deepanjan Ghosh (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound dressing includes: a structural material formed into a dressing; at least one immunomodulatory agent associated with the dressing; and a growth factor associated with the dressing. A wound dressing kit includes: a structural material formed into a wound dressing; an immunomodulatory agent; and a growth factor composition, wherein th...