US Patent Issued to KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Dec. 16 for "Hydrogel and method for preparing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,273, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Hydrogel and method for preparing the same" was invented by Sang-Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Muhammad Asim Raza (Jeongeup-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a hydrogel having excellent drug delivery ability and having antibacterial properties as well as pH-dependent, biocompatible and biodegradable properties, and a method for preparing the same. The hydrogel including radiated chitosan, a natural gelling polymer, a hydrophilic synthetic polymer and (3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysila...