US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on June 2 for "Mid-infrared laser-activated tissue sealing using biomaterials" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,515, issued on June 2, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Mid-infrared laser-activated tissue sealing using biomaterials" was invented by Kaushal Rege (Gilbert, Ariz.), Ridha Inam (Tempe, Ariz.) and Yu Yao (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of closing an opening in a tissue comprises providing a light absorbing material, introducing the light absorbing material into a tissue opening, and irradiating the light absorbing material with at least one light source so as to increase a temperature of the light absorbing material, causing the tissue edges o...