US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 3 for "Microporous annealed particle gel system" (California, Virginia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,663, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Microporous annealed particle gel system" was invented by Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles), Westbrook Weaver (San Diego), Tatiana Segura (Durham, N.C.), Jaekyung Koh (Los Angeles), Philip Scumpia (Los Angeles) and Donald R. Griffin (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogel material for use in a human subject or other mammal includes a collection of microgel particles having one or more network cross linker components, wherein the microgel particles, when exposed to an endogenous or exogenous annealing agent, links ...