ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,470, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).
"Plug for lung tissue tract sealing" was invented by Salim Ghodbane (Piscataway, N.J.), Sridevi Dhanaraj (Raritan, N.J.), Ashley DeAnglis (Skillman, N.J.) and Guanghui Zhang (Belle Mead, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a tissue sealing plug comprising a substrate comprising foamed gelatin impregnated with polyethylene glycol that is liquid at room temperature, wherein the weight ratio of polyethylene glycol to foamed gelatin in the substrate is about 4:1 to about 6.8:1 and the substrate is substantially free of air, along with met...