US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods of forming hydrogel structures and structures formed therefrom" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,692, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Systems and methods of forming hydrogel structures and structures formed therefrom" was invented by Srinivasa R. Raghavan (Columbia, Md.), Sohyun Ahn (College Park, Md.) and Ankit Gargava (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of system of forming a biopolymer hydrogel structure includes a mold loaded with a cation. At least a portion of the surface of the mold is exposed to a solution comprising a gellable polymer such as alginate. An electric potential is applied to the mold so that the cation therein and the gella...