ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,286, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY (Guangdong, China).

"Biomedical tape, preparation method therefor, and application thereof" was invented by Yuxiao Lai (Guangdong, China), Yuanchi Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Wei Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a biomedical tape, a preparation method thereof and use thereof. The biomedical tape comprises a hydrogel carrier in dry state and a functional nanomaterial encapsulated within the hydrogel carrier in dry state, and the hydrogel carrier in dry state comprises a thin film body of hyaluronic acid hydrogel and a d...