US Patent Issued to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS on Nov. 11 for "Nanocomposites and nanoagents for detection and treatment of a target of interest and methods of making and using same" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,920, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Nanocomposites and nanoagents for detection and treatment of a target of interest and methods of making and using same" was invented by Alexandru S. Biris (Little Rock, Ark.) and Zeid Nima (Little Rock, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanoagent for detections and treatments of multiple targets of interest includes multiple types of nanocomposites, each type of nanocomposites comprising at least one nanostructure, each nanostructure having a core and a shell surrounding the core; a respective reporter assembled on the sh...