ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,460, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pharsun Medical Biotechnics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Electro-responsive silk fibroin material, electro-responsive silk fibroin microneedle, insulin microneedle patch having electro-responsive silk fibroin and preparation method therefor, and transdermal drug delivery device" was invented by Shenzhou Lu (Jiangsu, China), Zhenzhen Qi (Jiangsu, China), Xiaosheng Tao (Jiangsu, China), Shijie Guo (Jiangsu, China), Zheng Yan (Jiangsu, China) and Yujian Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing an electro-responsive silk fibroin material comprises: (1) activation o...