US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 3 for "Biological mucous membrane model and method of evaluating retention of mucous membrane protective agent" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,934, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biological mucous membrane model and method of evaluating retention of mucous membrane protective agent" was invented by Haruki Tomikawa (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Toshihide Yoshitani (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a biological mucous membrane model having high reproducibility of the evaluation result of the retention that is obtained in a case where a mucous membrane protective agent is applied to the mucous membrane of the living body, in a case where the mucous membrane protective agent such as an oral mucous m...