ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,708, issued on July 1, was assigned to Polyganics IP B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).
"Tissue-adhesive hydrogels" was invented by Martin Franke Tooren (Bedum, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a tissue-adhesive multi-arm polymer comprising a core from which polymeric arms extent, which polymeric arms are substituted with a hydroxyl-substituted aromatic group based on compounds such as dopamine, L-DOPA, D-DOPA, tyramine, noradrenaline and/or serotonin. In addition, the invention is directed to a caprolactam blocked hydroxyl-substituted aromatic compound, suitable for the preparation of the tissue-adh...