US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 14 for "Sol-gel vaults and methods of making and using thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,577, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Sol-gel vaults and methods of making and using thereof" was invented by Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, Calif.), Shaily Mahendra (Santa Monica, Calif.), Meng Wang (Los Angeles), Valerie Ann Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Esther Hui-Jen Lan (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Bruce S. Dunn (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sol-gel vault which comprises a complex between a vault particle and a sol-gel. The vault particle comprises one or more one or more passenger molecules. At least one of the one or more passenger molecules...