ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,845, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY ERICA CAMPUS (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Adhesive elastin and suckerin-based multiblock copolypeptide with stimulus responsiveness and surface adhesion, self-assembled structure thereof, and application of injectable hydrogel as bioadhesive" was invented by Dong Woo Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hee Lee (Busan, South Korea) and Aamna Basheer (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an adhesive elastin and suckerin-based multiblock copolypeptide with stimulus responsiveness and surfac...