US Patent Issued to EMPA EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT, ETH ZURICH on Sept. 1 for "Kit comprising adhesive hydrogel and impregnating fluid" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,927, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to EMPA EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT (Dubendorf, Switzerland) and ETH ZURICH (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Kit comprising adhesive hydrogel and impregnating fluid" was invented by Alexandre Anthis (Zurich, Switzerland), Inge Herrmann (Seiben/Wangen, Switzerland) and Tino Matter (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit of parts including two components, the first component being a patch including a non-degradable synthetic hydrogel and the second component being an impregnating fluid, which, upon in-situ polymerisation, anchors the patch on a tissue. The patch m...