ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,430, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for killing colorectal cancer cells" was invented by Suriya Rehman (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Rabindran Jermy (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silver and titanium oxide nanoparticles produced with Fomes fomentarius or Fomitopsis pinicola aqueous extracts and methods for treating bacterial infections or cancer using them."

The patent was filed on April 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/301,505.

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