ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,561, issued on March 18, was assigned to Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).
"Minimally invasive dermal electroporation device" was invented by Kate Broderick (San Diego), Jay McCoy (Temecula, Calif.) and Stephen V. Kemmerrer (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to a device for electroporating and delivering one or more antigens and a method of electroporating and delivering one or more antigens to cells of epidermal tissues using the device. The device comprises a housing, a plurality of electrode arrays projecting from the housing, each electrode array including at least one electro...