ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,449, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LIKARDA INC. (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Tunable degradation in hydrogel microparticles" was invented by Lindsey Ott (Kansas City, Mo.), Stephen Harrington (Kansas City, Mo.), Karthik Ramachandran (Kansas City, Mo.), Lisa Stehno-Bittel (Kansas City, Mo.) and Megan E. Hamilton (Kansas City, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-alginate hydrogel microparticles for localized delivery and sustained release of therapeutic cells and/or tissues (including homogenous or heterogenous cell clusters) at a site of implantation. The microparticles comprise a 3-dimensional matrix of covalently crosslinked non-alg...