US Patent Issued to KIOMED PHARMA on April 7 for "Chitosan-based beads, and preparation, compositions and uses thereof" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,342, issued on April 7, was assigned to KIOMED PHARMA (Herstal, Belgium).

"Chitosan-based beads, and preparation, compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Mickael Chausson (Huy, Belgium), Sandrine Emilia Gautier (Liege, Belgium), Laurence Hermitte (Bouc Bel Air, France), Antoine Rabeux (Huy, Belgium) and Guillermo Rocasalbas (Liege, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to beads and a composition comprising an aqueous phase comprising a plurality of beads, the beads comprising or consisting in a hydrogel matrix comprising at least one carboxyalkyl chitosan having glucosamine units, N-acetyl-glucosamine un...