ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,785, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).
"Expandable hemostat composed of oxidized cellulose" was invented by Erez Ilan (Kibbutz Netzer Sereni, Israel), Omri Faingold (Rehovot, Israel), Tamar Auerbach-Nevo (Rehovot, Israel), Tali Negreanu-Gilboa (Givatayim, Israel), Hadas Alperin (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yi-Lan Allen Wang (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Dwayne Looney (Flemington, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable biodegradable hemostatic matrix comprised of oxidized cellulose, and having a density ranging from about 0.8 to about 1.2 gr/cm3 is disclosed herein. The matrix may be expandable to at least 3 ...