US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on July 14 for "Water-activated mucoadhesive compositions and methods of delivering biologically active substances" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,503, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Water-activated mucoadhesive compositions and methods of delivering biologically active substances" was invented by Yuhan Lee (Cambridge, Mass.), Ali Tavakkoli (Boston) and Jeffrey M. Karp (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to compositions including formulated sucralfate or other aluminum-crosslinked sulfated agents and one or more biologically active substances to mucosal surfaces within the GI tract and methods for the manufacture and the use of these compositions."

The patent was filed on June 10, 2019, u...