US Patent Issued to PRIVO TECHNOLOGIES on June 3 for "Intraoperative topically-applied non-implantable rapid release patch" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,491, issued on June 3, was assigned to PRIVO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Peabody, Mass.).

"Intraoperative topically-applied non-implantable rapid release patch" was invented by Manijeh Nazari Goldberg (Newburyport, Mass.), Brandon LaPorte (Methuen, Mass.), Aaron M. Manzi (Haverhill, Mass.) and Amani Jahjaa (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for delivery of a therapeutic agent to a surgical cavity, including: a porous, mucoadhesive, freeze-dried polymeric matrix having first and second opposed surfaces, the matrix formed by a composition including chitosan; a plurality of particles embedded within the matrix, the particles c...