US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Feb. 10 for "Biodegradable, antioxidant, thermally responsive injectable hydrogel and uses therefor" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,398, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Biodegradable, antioxidant, thermally responsive injectable hydrogel and uses therefor" was invented by William R. Wagner (Gibsonia, Pa.), Yasumoto Matsumura (Pittsburgh), Murugesan Velayutham (Pittsburgh) and Yang Zhu (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are antioxidant, thermally-responsive polymeric compositions and methods of making and using the compositions, e.g., for treatment of ischemia reperfusion injury or radiation exposure."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2023, under Ap...