US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on May 27 for "Compositions and methods of using propylene sulfide-based polymers for treatment of Chagas disease" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,054, issued on May 27, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Compositions and methods of using propylene sulfide-based polymers for treatment of Chagas disease" was invented by Evan A. Scott (Evanston, Ill.), Sijia Yi (Evanston, Ill.), David Engman (Evanston, Ill.) and Xiaomo Li (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel nanostructures comprising solution of PPSU20. Methods of preparing the novel PPSU nanostructures, and applications of such nanostructures are also provided."

The patent was filed on July 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/346,721.

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