ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,158, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BIOPOLIMERI S.R.L. (San Vito Dei Normanni, Italy).
"Hyperbranched polyglycerol polyglycidyl ether and its use as crosslinker for polysaccharides" was invented by Vincenzo Maria De Benedictis (San Vito Dei Normanni, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hyperbranched polyglycerol polyglycidyl ether having a molecular weight from 750 to 15.000 Da; and an epoxy equivalent weight from 183 to 7.000 g/eq. It also relates to a crosslinked polysaccharide obtainable by crosslinking the polysaccharide with the hyperbranched polyglycerol polyglycidyl ether. The present inve...