US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 15 for "Guided magnetic nanostructures for targeted and high-throughput intracellular delivery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,220, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Guided magnetic nanostructures for targeted and high-throughput intracellular delivery" was invented by Paul S. Weiss (Los Angeles), Hsian-Rong Tseng (Los Angeles), Xiaobin Xu (Los Angeles), Natcha Wattanatorn (Los Angeles), Qing Yang (Los Angeles) and Steven J. Jonas (Hawthorne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transporting biomolecular cargo intracellularly into cells includes the operations of providing magnetic nanostructures (e.g., nanospears, nanostars, nanorods, and other nanometer-sized structures) carrying...