US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Dec. 23 for "Elastomeric nanocomposite hydrogels" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,559, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Elastomeric nanocomposite hydrogels" was invented by Eben Alsberg (Cleveland) and Oju Jeon (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastomeric nanocomposite hydrogel includes first natural polymer macromers covalently crosslinked with second natural polymer macromer and physically crosslinked with a plurality of inorganic nanoparticles. The elastomeric nanocomposite hydrogel is cytocompatible, and, upon degradation, produce substantially non-toxic products."

The patent was filed on Dec. 12, 2018, under Application No. 16/218,051.

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