ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,345, issued on April 7, was assigned to ASCENDIS PHARMA A/S (Hellerup, Denmark).
"Degradable hyaluronic acid hydrogels" was invented by Sebastian Stark (Heidelberg, Germany), Burkhardt Laufer (Heidelberg, Germany), Thomas Knappe (Heidelberg, Germany), Tobias Voigt (Heidelberg, Germany) and Nicola Bisek (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to conjugates comprising crosslinked hyaluronic acid to which a plurality of drug moieties are covalently and reversibly conjugated, wherein the hyaluronic acid exhibits a certain degree of modification and comprises degradable crosslinked moieties. It al...