US Patent Issued to MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, The Regents of the University of California, Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 17 for "Nanoengineering of shear-thinning biomaterials" (California, South Carolina, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,602, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Rochester, Minn.), The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Nanoengineering of shear-thinning biomaterials" was invented by Alireza Khademhosseini (Los Angeles), Chun Xu (Los Angeles), Hanjun Kim (Los Angeles), Ehsan Jabbarzadeh (Columbia, S.C.) and Rahmi Oklu (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shear-thinning biomaterial technology offers enables polymers and drugs loaded inside such polymers to be easily delivered directly through catheters into target ...