US Patent Issued to MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY on Dec. 9 for "Combination and method for treating subject using alginate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,208, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Sapporo, Japan).

"Combination and method for treating subject using alginate" was invented by Tomokazu Takai (Tokyo), Hitoshi Mizuno (Tokyo), Akira Takahashi (Tokyo), Toshiya Endo (Tokyo), Shinichi Sakaue (Tokyo), Norimasa Iwasaki (Hokkaido, Japan), Tomohiro Onodera (Hokkaido, Japan) and Koji Iwasaki (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Realized is reliable fixation of a material in a fluid state containing a monovalent metal salt of alginic acid when the material is applied to a subject. A...