ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,253, issued on April 1, was assigned to Elektrofi Inc. (Boston).

"Particles comprising a therapeutic or diagnostic agent and suspensions and methods of use thereof" was invented by Chase Spenser Coffman (Newton, Mass.), Lyndon Fitzgerald Charles Jr. (Medford, Mass.), Paul Brown (Boston), Daniel Benjamin Dadon (East Boston, Mass.), Lisa Liu (Somerville, Mass.), Sadiqua Shadbar (Allston, Mass.) and Chaitanya Sudrik (Stoneham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides particles, compositions including the particles, and methods of making the particles using electrospray. In certain embodiments, the particles allow for ...