US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on April 14 for "Adhesion prevention with shear-thinning polymeric hydrogels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,706, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Adhesion prevention with shear-thinning polymeric hydrogels" was invented by Eric Andrew Appel (Stanford, Calif.), Y. Joseph Woo (Stanford, Calif.) and Lyndsay Stapleton (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preventing tissue adhesion includes forming an incision in tissue, applying a hydrogel to tissue through the incision, and closing the incision with the hydrogel therein. The hydrogel includes a polymer non-covalently cross-linked with a plurality of nanoparticles and prevents a form...