US Patent Issued to Leibniz-Institut fur Neue Materialien gemeinnutzige on Aug. 4 for "Hydrogels" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,472, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Leibniz-Institut fur Neue Materialien gemeinnutzige GmbH (Saarbrucken, Germany).

"Hydrogels" was invented by Julieta I. Paez (Saarbrucken, Germany), Aleeza Farrukh (Irvine, Calif.) and Aranzazu del Campo (Mainz-Bretzenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing a hydrogel includes a) preparing a composition comprising a1) at least one macromer comprising as functional groups at least two thiol groups, and a2) at least one macromer comprising as functional groups at least two aromatic or heteroaromatic groups each substituted by at least one sulfonyl group, wherein at leas...