US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO on Oct. 21 for "Composition and device for preventing hypoglycemia and use thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,133, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"Composition and device for preventing hypoglycemia and use thereof" was invented by Xiao Yu Wu (Toronto), Jason Li (Toronto), Amin Ghavami Nejad (Toronto), Brian Lu (Toronto) and Adria Giacca (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for preventing or treating hypoglycemia in a patient in need thereof has a microgel that includes crosslinked polymers containing glucose-responsive moieties; and blood glucose-raising therapeutic agent loaded on or within the microgel. The microgel further includes any one or a combination ...