US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 14 for "Submucosal lifting and hemostatic sealing hydrogel" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,534, issued on July 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Submucosal lifting and hemostatic sealing hydrogel" was invented by Philip David Dorgan (Cork, Ireland), Edward Joseph Devlin (Cork, Ireland), Conor O'Sullivan (Cork, Ireland), John Murphy (Cork, Ireland), Mark Looney (Cork, Ireland) and Paul O'Farrell (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to injectable polysaccharide-based hydrogels that comprises an anionic polysaccharide, a cationic crosslinking agent and a hemostatic agent. In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to medical...