US Patent Issued to FINNCURE on May 27 for "Methods of fabricating carriers for targeted delivery to a host" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,061, issued on May 27, was assigned to FINNCURE OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods of fabricating carriers for targeted delivery to a host" was invented by Erik Johan Niemela (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a carrier for reducing a likelihood of a pathogen binding to cell structures of a host comprises a core, surface features extending from an exterior surface of the core, wherein the surface features are configured to bind to target areas of cell structures of the host to at least partially block the pathogen from binding to said target areas as a result of competitive inhibition, and a plurality ...