US Patent Issued to Astellas Pharma, National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University on March 18 for "Thrombin-carrying hemostatic sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,491, issued on March 18, was assigned to Astellas Pharma Inc. (Chuo-ku, Japan) and National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).

"Thrombin-carrying hemostatic sheet" was invented by Makoto Ogino (Chuo-ku, Japan), Keiichi Yoshihara (Chuo-ku, Japan), Yasuharu Kimura (Chuo-ku, Japan), Megumi Aoki (Chuo-ku, Japan), Toshitaka Yoshii (Bunkyo-ku, Japan) and Satoru Egawa (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a thrombin-carrying hemostatic sheet that is suitable for hemostasis during surgery, in particular, for hemostasis during spine surgery, that is convenient without prepara...