US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY on March 25 for "Antitumor application of polysaccharide carbon nanogels" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,268, issued on March 25, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY (Keelung, Taiwan).

"Antitumor application of polysaccharide carbon nanogels" was invented by Chih-Ching Huang (Keelung, Taiwan), Ju-Yi Mao (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chen-Yow Wang (Yunlin County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a polysaccharide carbon nanogel exhibiting antitumor efficacy prepared by carbonizing the polysaccharide utilizing dry heating. The polysaccharide carbon nanogel comprises a graphene-like nanosheet and a polysaccharide, which are complexed to form a cross-linked supramolecular structure. The polysacchar...