US Patent Issued to MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, The Regents of the University of California, Boston Scientific Scimed on June 3 for "Injectable shear-thinning hydrogel containing therapeutic agent for enhanced tumor therapy" (California, South Carolina, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,401, issued on June 3, was assigned to MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Rochester, Minn.), The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Injectable shear-thinning hydrogel containing therapeutic agent for enhanced tumor therapy" was invented by Hanjun Kim (Los Angeles), Chun Xu (Los Angeles), Ehsan Jabbarzadeh (Columbia, S.C.), Rahmi Oklu (Chandler, Ariz.) and Alireza Khademhosseini (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We have developed novel shear-thinning biomaterials using silica nanoparticles, gelatin-based polymers and small molecul...