US Patent Issued to Tricol Biomedical, Oregon Health & Science University on Dec. 30 for "Delivery systems for control of bleeding in transurethral prostatectomy" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,171, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tricol Biomedical Inc. (Portland, Ore.) and Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Delivery systems for control of bleeding in transurethral prostatectomy" was invented by Simon J. McCarthy (Portland, Ore.), Mattie R. Jones (Portland, Ore.) and Hua Xie (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a gastrointestinal delivery device of a chitosan dressing, where the delivery device is capable of stop bleeding, in particular in connection with TURP procedures. The delivery device may be used in all gastrointestinal bleeding applications and can be...