US Patent Issued to Merz Pharma on June 30 for "Aldehyde-modified hyaluronic acid, method for preparing same and applications thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,533, issued on June 30, was assigned to Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KGaA (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Aldehyde-modified hyaluronic acid, method for preparing same and applications thereof" was invented by Patrick Plitt (Bad Homburg, Germany), Colin Drabe (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Sibylle Mueller (Mainz, Germany), Radovan Vukicevic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Jens Neubauer (Glauburg, Germany) and Charlotte Reither (Bad Vilbel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified hyaluronic acid derivative is described having the -CH2-OH group of the N-acetyl-D-glucosamine unit (GlcNAc) modified to an aldehyde group having the structur...