US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on April 22 for "Method for making superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocarrier" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,020, issued on April 22, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for making superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocarrier" was invented by B. Rabindran Jermy (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Vijaya Ravinayagam (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silica nanocarriers hybridized with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles ("SPIONs") and curcumin through equilibrium or enforced adsorption technique. Methods for dual delivery of SPIONs and curcumin to a target for diagnosis or therapy, for example, for SPION-based magnetic resonance imaging or for targeted delivery of curcumin to a c...