US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 25 for "Swellable and structurally homogenous hydrogels and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,454, issued on March 25, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Swellable and structurally homogenous hydrogels and methods of use thereof" was invented by Ruixuan Gao (Cambridge, Mass.), Linyi Gao (Cambridge, Mass.), Chih-Chieh Yu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Edward Stuart Boyden (Chestnut Hill, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention encompasses hydrogels, monomer precursors of the hydrogels, methods for the preparation thereof, and methods of use therefor. The linking of monomers can take place using non-radical, bioorthogonal reactions such as copper-free click-chemistry."

The patent was...