US Patent Issued to C.R. Bard on Oct. 14 for "Drug-loaded microbead compositions, embolization compositions and associated methods" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,447, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to C.R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Drug-loaded microbead compositions, embolization compositions and associated methods" was invented by Hiep Do (Chandler, Ariz.) and Michael Randall (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for preparing a drug-loaded microbead compositions and embolization compositions include loading a therapeutic agent into a water-swellable polymer material to form microbeads, then removing water from the microbeads. The drug-loaded microbead compositions include microbeads of a water-swellable polymer material and a complex of a carrier and a therapeutic...