US Patent Issued to Ethicon on March 17 for "Methods and devices for changing the flow rates of pH modifying fluids for controlling cross-linking rates of reactive components of biocompatible sealing compositions" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,183, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"Methods and devices for changing the flow rates of pH modifying fluids for controlling cross-linking rates of reactive components of biocompatible sealing compositions" was invented by Sridevi Dhanaraj (Raritan, N.J.), Salim Ghodbane (Raritan, N.J.), Ashley Deanglis (Raritan, N.J.), Michael Cardinale (Raritan, N.J.), Nicole Smith (Raritan, N.J.) and Ashwin Viswanath (Raritan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a biocompatible composition for sealing tissue includes mixing a first fluid having a first reactive component (e.g., an electrophile)...