ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,492, issued on March 18, was assigned to LUNA LABS USA LLC (Charlottesville, Va.).
"Nanofiber-reinforced hydrogel medical dressings" was invented by Lauren Anne Costella (Roanoke, Va.), Christopher K. Tison (Roanoke, Va.), Matthew Patterson (Roanoke, Va.), Keley Broderick (Roanoke, Va.), Lindsay Woodard (Roanoke, Va.) and Mallory Gasbarre (Roanoke, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical dressings include a non-woven polymeric nanofiber mat embedded within a chitosan hydrogel matrix. The dressings may be obtained by electro spinning of polymeric nanofibers and thereafter incorporating a chitosan hydrogel into interstices of the m...