US Patent Issued to ACCUDX on Feb. 10 for "Biocompatible nanomagnetic discs and methods of use thereof" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,442, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ACCUDX Corp. (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Biocompatible nanomagnetic discs and methods of use thereof" was invented by Raveendran Pottathil (La Jolla, Calif.), Sanjay Deshmukh (Aurangabad, India) and Kiran Kharat (Aurangabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions including biocompatible magnetizeable nanoparticles. The nanoparticles have a diameter (average diameter) from about 10 to about 300 nanometers and are biocompatible and magnetic. The nanoparticles may be a disc formed from iron oxide. The disc may be conjugated to a target-binding moiety capable of binding a ta...