US Patent Issued to Fulgent Genetics on Aug. 26 for "Nanoparticles containing a taxane and their use" (Delaware, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,962, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Fulgent Genetics Inc. (El Monte, Calif.).

"Nanoparticles containing a taxane and their use" was invented by Ray Yin (Wilmington, Del.), Jing Pan (Newark, Del.), Yubei Zhang (Hockessin, Del.), Bingsen Zhou (West Covina, Calif.) and Yun Yen (Arcadia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Symmetrically and asymmetrically branched homopolymers are modified at the surface level with functional groups that enable forming aggregates with a taxane, such as, paclitaxel and derivatives thereof, which are water insoluble or poorly water soluble. The aggregates are formed by interaction of a taxane and a h...