US Patent Issued to YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on July 22 for "Phosphatidylcholine lipid liposomes as boundary lubricants in aqueous media" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,662, issued on July 22, was assigned to YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Rohobot, Israel) and Yissum Research Development Co. of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd. (Jerusalem).

"Phosphatidylcholine lipid liposomes as boundary lubricants in aqueous media" was invented by Jacob Klein (Rehovot, Israel), Ronit Goldberg (Rehovot, Israel), Yechezkel Barenholtz (Jerusalem) and Avi Schroeder (Moshav Massuout Yitzhak, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for lubricating one or more surfaces, comprising applying gel-phase liposomes onto said one or more surfaces, wherein the temperature of said surf...