ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,311, issued on April 21, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hydrogel structure" was invented by Saki Hamada (Wakayama, Japan) and Shohei Toyota (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogel structure (10) includes: a continuous phase (11) of a first hydrogel; and a dispersion phase (12) of a second hydrogel, the dispersion phase being dispersed in the continuous phase (11). A ratio of a local minimum value of a load after break to a breaking load (a local minimum value of a load after break/a breaking load) of the hydrogel structure (10) is 0.1 or more."
The patent was filed on Feb. 5, 2021, under Application No. 18/275,832.
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