US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Oct. 14 for "Selenium-containing analogues of pheomelanin and related materials and methods of making" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,890, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Selenium-containing analogues of pheomelanin and related materials and methods of making" was invented by Nathan C. Gianneschi (Evanston, Ill.) and Wei Cao (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, an artificial selenomelanin material comprises: one or more selenomelanin polymers; wherein the one or more selenomelanin polymers comprise a plurality of covalently bonded selenomelanin base units; and wherein a chemical formula of each of the one or more selenomelanin base units comprises at least one selenium atom. Optionally, each sele...