US Patent Issued to Microcaps on Nov. 18 for "Capsules with a hydrogel matrix" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,479, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microcaps AG (Schlieren, Switzerland).

"Capsules with a hydrogel matrix" was invented by Giulia Biffi (Zurich, Switzerland), Konstantina Papadea (Zurich, Switzerland), Vittoria Picece (Zurich, Switzerland) and Dmitriy Pivovarov (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for generating capsules with a hydrogel matrix. The method includes the steps: providing in a first chamber a dispersed aqueous phase, the dispersed aqueous phase including water and a hydrogel matrix-forming agent, in which the hydrogel matrix-forming agent is configured to form a hydrogel ...