US Patent Issued to Everest Medical Innovation, Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 30 for "Cryoprotective compositions and methods for protection of a surgical site during cryosurgery" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,594, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Everest Medical Innovation GmbH (Zug, Switzerland) and Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Cryoprotective compositions 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.) and David A. Ramirez (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryoprotective composition configured to be applied during cryotreatment of a patient includes at least one biodegradable and/or bioerodi...