US Patent Issued to KURARAY on May 27 for "Composition for forming hydrogel, hydrogel, and method for producing composition for forming hydrogel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,430, issued on May 27, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Composition for forming hydrogel, hydrogel, and method for producing composition for forming hydrogel" was invented by Akio Fujita (Tsukuba, Japan) and Goro Kobayashi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hydrogel-forming composition capable of forming a sterilized hydrogel having a high mechanical strength. Also provided are a hydrogel using the hydrogel-forming composition, and a method for producing the hydrogel-forming composition. The hydrogel-forming composition contains a vinyl alcohol polymer having an ethylenically unsaturate...