US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Nov. 4 for "Responsive elastic polymers and methods of making and using same" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,703, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Responsive elastic polymers and methods of making and using same" was invented by Meng Deng (West Lafayette, Ind.), Liangju Kuang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Gert J. Breur (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Jeff Ko (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are functionalized hyaluronic acid (HA), a responsive elastic polymer system comprising functionalized HA, and methods of fabrication and utilization of the same. This polymer system may be used for controlled local or systemic drug delivery release of analgesics, anesthetics, ...