US Patent Issued to University of Georgia Research Foundation on Sept. 1 for "Robust nitric oxide-releasing polymers and articles and methods of making and uses thereof" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,935, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. (Athens, Ga.).

"Robust nitric oxide-releasing polymers and articles and methods of making and uses thereof" was invented by Sean Hopkins (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are nitric oxide releasing materials, methods of making nitric oxide releasing materials, and devices including nitric oxide releasing materials. The nitric oxide releasing material includes a polymer matrix having a plurality of polysiloxanes and nitric oxide-donating crosslinking moieties that covalently crosslink the polysiloxanes. Blood clotting or a...