ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,015, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).
"Kit for composition for tissue tract sealing" was invented by Salim Ghodbane (Piscataway, N.J.), Ashley DeAnglis (Skillman, N.J.), Sridevi N. Dhanaraj (Somerville, N.J.) and Guanghui Zhang (Belle Mead, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a kit for preparing a composition for sealing a lung tract, comprising: (a) a first component comprising: (i) a fibrinogen solution, and (ii) prewet gelatin particles in an aqueous solution; and (b) a second component comprising: (i) a thrombin solution, and (ii) a dry gelatin powder; wherein the f...