US Patent Issued to OXFORD MEDICAL PRODUCTS on July 21 for "Polymer compositions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,749, issued on July 21, was assigned to OXFORD MEDICAL PRODUCTS Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Polymer compositions" was invented by Anthony John Fitzpatrick (Oxford, Great Britain), Xue Min (Oxford, Great Britain) and Jan Tadeusz Czernuszka (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to novel a high-volume swelling hydrogel which comprises a plurality of pores which are defined by an interpenetrating network, and/or a semi-interpenetrating network and/or simple cross-linked arrangement of a plurality of one or more species of hydrophilic polymers, optionally together with one or more biocompatible pol...