ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,196, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Macromolecular prodrugs for light-emitting diodes and uses thereof" was invented by Daniel S. Kohane (Newton, Mass.) and Wei Zhang (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions comprising macromolecular photocleavable prodrug compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, and isotopically enriched derivatives thereof. Also provided are methods, uses, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits involving the inventive compounds or composi...