ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,426, issued on July 1, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Therapeutic hydrogels" was invented by Viktoria Molnar (Macroom, Ireland), Carolina Villarreal (Hopedale, Mass.), Bhanu Prasanth Koppolu (Cary, N.C.), Nivedita Swetha Ramkumar (Cork, Ireland) and Philip David Dorgan (Cork, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to therapeutic hydrogels that comprise an anionic polysaccharide crosslinked by a branched polyamine, wherein the branched polyamine comprises at least two primary amine groups, more typically at least three primary amine groups. The present disclosure als...