US Patent Issued to THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION on April 22 for "Compositions and methods for targeted delivery of therapeutic and/or diagnostic species" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,156, issued on April 22, was assigned to THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, Pa.).

"Compositions and methods for targeted delivery of therapeutic and/or diagnostic species" was invented by Daniel J. Hayes (State College, Pa.) and Mohammad Abu-Laban (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, compositions are described herein. A composition described herein comprises a nanoparticle, a therapeutic species, and a linker joining the nanoparticle to the therapeutic species. The linker joining the nanoparticle to the therapeutic species comprises a Diels-Alder cyclo-addition reaction product. Additiona...