ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,600, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).
"Biocompatible, flexible, haemostatic sheet" was invented by Abraham Reinier Keereweer (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Rosa Pilar Felix Lanao (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Joost Opsteen (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Johannes Caspar Mathias Elizabeth Bender (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biocompatible, flexible, haemostatic sheets are provided comprising a water-resistant cohesive fibrous carrier structure comprising a three-dimensional interconnected interstitial space and fibres comprising a nucleophilic polymer carrying reactive nucleophil...