ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,130, issued on July 7, was assigned to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Dynamic antimicrobial hydrogel based on natural receptor-ligand recognition, and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Guoqing Pan (Zhenjiang, China), Wenbo He (Zhenjiang, China), Yue Ma (Zhenjiang, China) and Miao Wang (Zhenjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic antimicrobial hydrogel based on natural receptor-ligand recognition, and a preparation method and use thereof are provided. A ligand vancomycin and a receptor AA-based material each are first modified with a modification material, and then a photoinitiator is added to pr...