ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,218, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN) (Wuhan, China).
"Hemostatic, antibacterial, and healing-promoting clay mineral-based biomaterial and preparation method thereof" was invented by Huaming Yang (Wuhan, China), Ying Chen (Wuhan, China), Weimin Xie (Wuhan, China) and Yiting Yuan (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing for preparing the hemostatic, antibacterial, and healing-promoting clay mineral-based hydrogel in the present disclosure includes: dissolving chitosan uniformly in a dilute acid, adding a preset amount of a crosslinking agent to obtain a first mixture...