US Patent Issued to PCE Tech on Sept. 9 for "pH-sensitive carbon nanoparticles, preparation method therefor, and drug delivery using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,150, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PCE Tech Co. Ltd. (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

"pH-sensitive carbon nanoparticles, preparation method therefor, and drug delivery using same" was invented by Kun Na (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Jeongdeok Seo (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea), Dahye Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Minji Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to pH-sensitive carbon nanoparticles, a method of preparing the same, and a drug delivery using the same, and pH-sensitive carbon nanoparticles including imidazole is prepared so that a hydrophobic drug and a photosensitizer material ca...