ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,711, issued on March 18, was assigned to MEDIFAB Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Osteoporosis model comprising calcium phosphate hydrogel composition and use thereof" was invented by Mi Sun Cha (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Ju Kim (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of preparing a hydrogel composition including a uniform content of calcium phosphate, wherein a hydrogel composition prepared by the method has a uniform content of calcium phosphate, and thus may be used to quantify phosphates contained in the hydrogel composition. Provided is an in-vitro 3D osteoporosis model including a calcium p...