US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on April 29 for "Hemostatic compositions and related methods" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,539, issued on April 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Hemostatic compositions and related methods" was invented by Lauren Lydecker (Millbury, Mass.), Poorva Rajguru (Shoreview, Minn.), David Wulfman (Minneapolis) and Joseph Rausa (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions including a plurality of particles that may be prepared from a chitosan salt and methods for preparing the same. The plurality of particles may have an average diameter ranging from about 100 micro metre to about 750 micro metre, such as from about 150 micro metre to about 500 micro metre; a steepness value r...