US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION on March 18 for "Compositions and methods for delivering an agent to a wound" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,444, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Compositions and methods for delivering an agent to a wound" was invented by Warren O. Haggard (Memphis, Tenn.), Scott P. Noel (Memphis, Tenn.) and Joel D. Bumgardner (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides compositions featuring chitosan and methods for using such compositions for the local delivery of biologically active agents to an open fracture, complex wound or other site of infection. Advantageously, the degradation and drug elution profiles of the chitosan compositions can be tailored to the nee...