US Patent Issued to Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg on May 12 for "Therapeutic system for the topical, transdermal and transcutaneous application of carbon monoxide" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,880, issued on May 12, was assigned to Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg (Wuerzburg, Germany).

"Therapeutic system for the topical, transdermal and transcutaneous application of carbon monoxide" was invented by Lorenz Meinel (Wuerzburg, Germany), Matthias Ruopp (Wuerzburg, Germany), Wolfgang Schmehl (Gruenwald, Germany) and Marcus Otto Gutmann (Gerbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a therapeutic system for the topic, transdermal and transcutaneous application of carbon monoxide (CO), comprising: (i) an adhesive layer, (ii) a gas-permeable and liquid- and solid-impermeable membrane, (i...