ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,108, issued on March 31, was assigned to SICHUAN UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Injectable bifunctional hydrogel with antibacterial activity as well as the preparative method and the use thereof" was invented by Hang Zhao (Chengdu, China), Jiang Liu (Chengdu, China), Yanan Zhang (Chengdu, China), Xianglong Han (Chengdu, China) and Qianming Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injectable bifunctional hydrogel has antibacterial activity. The bifunctional hydrogel is a hydrogel prepared by dissolving nucleoside analogues in a solvent. The nucleoside analog has a structure of formula I. It can be a candidate drug for th...