US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Aug. 12 for "Extracellular matrix (ECM) hydrogel as a submucosal fluid cushion" (American, Colombian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,243, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Extracellular matrix (ECM) hydrogel as a submucosal fluid cushion" was invented by Stephen Francis Badylak (West Lafayette, Ind.), Lindsey Tamiko Saldin (El Segundo, Calif.) and Juan Diego Naranjo Gutierrez (Manizales, Colombia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are disclosed for dissecting a mucosa and a submucosa from a muscularis propria from a region of an organ of a subject, wherein the organ is not the esophagus. In some embodiments, the organ is in the gastrointestinal tract. These methods include ...