US Patent Issued to C.R. Bard on Feb. 24 for "Drug-loaded biodegradable microbead compositions including drug-containing vesicular agents" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,308, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to C.R. Bard Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Drug-loaded biodegradable microbead compositions including drug-containing vesicular agents" was invented by Elena Afonina (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Hiep Do (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Emily Goel (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Oleg Guryev (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Cyal Lecy (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Majid Mehrpouyan (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Michael Randall (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Marybeth Sharkey (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and Jeffrey Wang (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drug-loaded microbead compositions include microbeads of a water-swellable polymer material an...