US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Jan. 27 for "Antibacterial wound treatments with clot-promoting properties" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,439, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Athens, Ga.).

"Antibacterial wound treatments with clot-promoting properties" was invented by Jitendra Pant (Athens, Ga.), Dieu Thao Nguyen (Dalton, Ga.) and Hitesh Handa (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wound dressings and methods for treating a wound are provided. The wound dressing can have an environment-facing side that includes a biocompatible material having a polymer crosslinked with an antimicrobial effective amount of a NO-donor and a woundfacing side including a biocompatible resinous matrix and an antifibrinolytic agent. The...