ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,224, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oceanit Laboratories Inc. (Honolulu).
"Hemostatic microparticles and dressing" was invented by Joanne S. M. Ebesu (Waipahu, Hawaii) and Jacob Pollock (Honolulu).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing hemostatic particles involves heating and mixing a chitosan solution and a gelatin solution to form a chitosan/gelatin solution, adding the chitosan/gelatin mixture to oil containing an emulsifier/surfactant to form a combination of chitosan/gelatin and oil, heating and mixing the combination and then cooling and stirring the combination to form gelatin-chitosan microspheres (GCM...