US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH on June 3 for "Body fluid resistant tissue adhesives" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,844, issued on June 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Rochester, Minn.).

"Body fluid resistant tissue adhesives" was invented by Xuanhe Zhao (Allston, Mass.), Hyunwoo Yuk (Cambridge, Mass.), Xinyu Mao (Cambridge, Mass.) and Christoph Nabzdyk (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue adhesive material that provides fast and robust adhesion even on tissue surfaces covered in bodily fluids. The tissue adhesive material is formed of a hydrophobic matrix and a plurality of bioadhesive microparticles dispersed within the hydroph...