US Patent Issued to NOF, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Degradable polyethylene glycol conjugate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,713, issued on March 4, was assigned to NOF Corp. (Tokyo) and TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Degradable polyethylene glycol conjugate" was invented by Hiroki Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Kamiya (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuji Yamamoto (Kawasaki, Japan), Midori Hirai (Kawasaki, Japan), Akiko Sasaki (Kawasaki, Japan), Nobuhiro Nishiyama (Tokyo), Makoto Matsui (Tokyo), Hiroyasu Takemoto (Tokyo), Kazuki Miyauchi (Tokyo), Takahiro Nomoto (Tokyo) and Keishiro Tomoda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a bio-related substance bonded to a high-molecular-weight polyethylene glycol derivative that does not cause...