ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,015, issued on May 27, was assigned to Omrix Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Stable liquid thrombin compositions" was invented by Erez Ilan (Kibbutz Netzer Sereni, Israel), Omri Faingold (Rehovot, Israel) and Sivan Doron (Moshav Arugot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for large scale preparation of sterile stable liquid thrombin composition comprised of glycerol; stable liquid thrombin compositions; and hemostatic composition and kits. The present invention further provides hemostatic compositions comprised of liquid thrombin, glycerol and gelatin. Further provided herein is a ...