US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on April 22 for "Compositions and methods for inhibiting post-surgical adhesions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,157, issued on April 22, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for inhibiting post-surgical adhesions" was invented by Andrew Wang (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Yu Mi (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, methods are described herein employing particle compositions operable to form composite membrane for inhibition of post-surgical adhesions. Briefly, a method of treating a surgical site comprises contacting the surgical site with a particle formulation comprising targeting particles and scaffolding particles. The targeting particles and scaf...