US Patent Issued to Ethicon on April 29 for "Hemostatic composite aggregate materials having surface enriched with hemostatis-promoting agents" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,540, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"Hemostatic composite aggregate materials having surface enriched with hemostatis-promoting agents" was invented by Yi-Lan Allen Wang (Somerville, N.J.), Jerry Yan (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Leo B. Kriksunov (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hemostatic absorbable composition, comprising: a flowable plurality of separate aggregates each comprising: a plurality of absorbable carrier particles coated on a surface thereof by a plurality of smaller particles comprising an absorbable supplemental hemostasis-promoting agent. In ...