US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on May 13 for "Amphiphilic compound, and medical resin composition and pharmaceutical additive using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,302, issued on May 13, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Amphiphilic compound, and medical resin composition and pharmaceutical additive using the same" was invented by Masato Imase (Osaka, Japan) and Akane Sato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is means capable of reducing the adsorptivity to plastics while suppressing a decrease in intracellular uptake efficiency in an amphiphilic compound that can be applied to long-term blood-retaining liposomes or the like as a drug carrier. The above problem can be solved by an amphiphilic compound comprising a moiety (I) including a constitutional un...