US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Sept. 16 for "Opioid independent surgical anesthetic" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,917, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Opioid independent surgical anesthetic" was invented by Brett Davis (Salt Lake City), Andrew M. Simpson (Salt Lake City), Jayant P. Agarwal (Salt Lake City), Jill E. Shea (Salt Lake City), Himanshu Jayant Sant (Salt Lake City) and Bruce K. Gale (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opioid independent surgical anesthetic composition includes an injectable dosage form of a hydrogel having a plurality of solid lipid matrix particles entrapped therein. The solid lipid matrix particles include a lipophilic local anesthetic drug ...