US Patent Issued to Everest Medical Innovation, Regents of the University of Minnesota on Oct. 28 for "Cryoprotective compositions, surgical kits, and methods for protection of a surgical site during cryosurgery" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,805, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Everest Medical Innovation GmbH (Zug, Switzerland) and Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Cryoprotective compositions, surgical kits, and methods for protection of a surgical site during cryosurgery" was invented by Franz Schmidlin (Geneva), John Bischof (St. Paul, Minn.), Paul A. Iaizzo (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Qi Shao (Plymouth, Minn.), Pegah Ranjbartehrani (Falcon Heights, Minn.), David A. Ramirez (St. Paul, Minn.) and Alexandre Porcello (Belmont-sur Yverdon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical kit for providing a cryoprotective composition configured t...