US Patent Issued to Incept on July 8 for "Superabsorbent, freeze dried hydrogels for medical applications" (California, Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,397, issued on July 8, was assigned to Incept LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Superabsorbent, freeze dried hydrogels for medical applications" was invented by Amarpreet S. Sawhney (Lexington, Mass.), Steven L. Bennett (Cheshire, Conn.), Suresh S. Pai (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott R. Sershen (Redwood City, Calif.) and Fred H. Co (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for making freeze dried hydrogel and structures therefrom that may be introduced into a patient's body for medical applications. Precursor components are combined to initiate crosslinking. The combined precursor components are placed in a chille...