US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, The Regents of the University of California, Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 27 for "Methods and materials for embolization" (Arizona, South Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,469, issued on Oct. 27, 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.).

"Methods and materials for embolization" was invented by Rahmi Oklu (Chandler, Ariz.), Alireza Khademhosseini (Los Angeles) and Ehsan Jabbarzadeh (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods and materials for embolization of one or more blood vessels (e.g., one or more arteries). For example, biomaterial compositions (e.g., BEM compositions containing PRF and one or more n...