US Patent Issued to Northwestern University, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) on Oct. 7 for "Supramolecular photoprotection of a photosensitizer" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,870, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Supramolecular photoprotection of a photosensitizer" was invented by Indranil Roy (Chicago) and James Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a water-soluble host-guest complex formed from a host receptor and a guest photosensitizer for the photoprotection of the photosensitizer. Also disclosed are methods of using the composition for generating reactive oxygen species, inhibiting the proliferation or killi...