ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,491, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Nano-satellite complexes" was invented by Duxin Sun (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ryan Clauson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hongwei Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Chengyi Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Wei Gao (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Luke Bugada (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Fei Wen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brett Hill (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Syed Monem Rizvi (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, in some embodiments, methods, compositions, systems, and kits comprising nano-satellite complexes comprising: a core nanoparticle complex comprising ...