ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,099, issued on March 11, was assigned to KING FAISAL UNVERSITY (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia).

"Wound dressing based on polymeric mixture of cellulose acetate and hyaluronic acid embedded with copper oxide and magnesium oxide nanoparticles" was invented by Mohamed Gouda (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia) and Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wound dressings fabricated from a polymeric mixture of cellulose acetate and hyaluronic acid embedded with copper oxide and/or magnesium oxide nanoparticles and a method of making the wound dressing. The method includes combining hyaluronic acid and deionized w...