US Patent Issued to NOF, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 19 for "Branched degradable polyethylene glycol binder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,534, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NOF Corp. (Tokyo) and TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Branched degradable polyethylene glycol binder" was invented by Hiroki Yoshioka (Kawasaki, Japan), Kazuki Osakama (Kawasaki, Japan), Mika Hamura (Kawasaki, Japan), Takanori Inaba (Kawasaki, Japan), Nobuhiro Nishiyama (Tokyo), Makoto Matsui (Tokyo), Hiroyasu Takemoto (Tokyo), Takahiro Nomoto (Tokyo) and Xiaohang Sun (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bio-related substance bonded to a branched and degradable polyethylene glycol derivative that is degraded in the cells represented by the following formula (A):wherein each symbol is...