US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on March 25 for "Compositions and methods for delivery of biomacromolecule agents" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,352, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Compositions and methods for delivery of biomacromolecule agents" was invented by James J. Moon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Rui Kuai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Anna A. Schwendeman (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jutaek Nam (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to nanoparticles associated with (e.g., complexed, conjugated, encapsulated, absorbed, adsorbed, admixed) biomacromolecule agents configured for treating, preventing or ameliorating various types of disorders, and methods of synthesizing the same. In particu...