US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 28 for "Multi-arm block-copolymers for multifunctional self-assembled systems" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,178, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multi-arm block-copolymers for multifunctional self-assembled systems" was invented by Tatiana Segura (Durham, N.C.), Nicolas Bernthal (Venice, Calif.) and Weixian Xi (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A copolymer poly(ethylene glycol)-polyallyl mercaptan (PEG-PAM) material is used as a drug-containing coating for medical implants. In one embodiment, a mixture of multi-arm poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), polyallyl mercaptan (PAM), a photoinitiator, organic solvent, and one or more drugs, medicaments, or pharmaceutical co...