US Patent Issued to The University of Akron on Sept. 15 for "Bioresorbable,stereochemically defined elastomers and methods of making and using same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,530, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio).

"Bioresorbable,stereochemically defined elastomers and methods of making and using same" was invented by Matthew L. Becker (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Howard Levinson (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, the present invention relates to a series of anti-fouling zwitterionic biodegradable thiol-yne elastomers that incorporate degradable C4-C14 dicarboxylic acid-based monomer units made using a nucleophilic thiol-yne polymerization methodology that targets high cis-content at comparable molar masses to provide excellent mechanic...