US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Nov. 4 for "Compositions and methods comprising energy absorbing materials for follicular delivery" (Massachusetts, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,664, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Compositions and methods comprising energy absorbing materials for follicular delivery" was invented by Dilip Paithankar (Wayland, Mass.), Richard Dean Blomgren (Dacula, Ga.), Richard Rox Anderson (Boston), William A. Farinelli (Danvers, Mass.) and Apostolos G. Doukas (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compositions comprising energy (e.g., light) absorbing submicron particles (e.g., nanoparticles comprising a silica core and a gold shell) and methods for delivering such particles via topical application. This deliv...