ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,569, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Methodist Hospital (Houston).

"Microparticle formulations for intravenous therapy and methods for their manufacture and use" was invented by Haifa Shen (Bellaire, Texas), Mauro Ferrari (Houston), Zhenhua Hu (Houston) and Guodong Zhang (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and formulations for therapeutic microparticles, wherein formulations are used for administering therapeutic microparticles to subjects by way of intravenous injection. Also, provided are methods of administering therapeutic microparticles to subjects in need thereof. The...