US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Feb. 10 for "Fiber-hydrogel composite surgical meshes for tissue repair" (Maryland, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,489, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Fiber-hydrogel composite surgical meshes for tissue repair" was invented by Russell Martin (Baltimore), Sashank Reddy (Baltimore), Justin Sacks (Baltimore), Xiaowei Li (Omaha, Neb.), Brian Honewee Cho (Baltimore) and Hai-Quan Mao (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed composition and methods are provided for a hydrogel or nanofiber-hydrogel composite integrated with a surgical scaffold or mesh. A surgical scaffold device comprised of laminar composite is disclosed for the purpose of reducing foreign body response, managing ti...