US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 25 for "Reversible bioadhesive" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,765, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Reversible bioadhesive" was invented by Qibing Pei (Los Angeles), Meng Gao (Los Angeles), Hanxiang Wu (Los Angeles) and Zhixin Xie (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition of matter useful as a bioadhesive including a bistable adhesive polymer. The bistable adhesive polymer includes one or more polymer backbones; side-chains attached to each of the polymer backbones; and one or more transition temperatures between a crystalline state and an amorphous state. The one or more transition temperatures are such that the ...