US Patent Issued to Fibrin on Aug. 18 for "Specialty fibrin product" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,701, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Fibrin LLC (Fla.).

"Specialty fibrin product" was invented by Mark H. Widick (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Abraham Lavi (Delray Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a specially prepared fibrin foam, and a method of (and equipment for) making it, which is flexible, contains either open cells, closed cells or both, and having individual cell diameters between 0.001 and 2 mm. Typical ratios of reactants, to give the desired foam characteristics, include 50 cc (45-55 cc) of whole blood (prior to separation to the plasma component) with the subsequent addition thereto of 2 ml...