ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,819, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, Canada), RYERSON UNIVERSITY (Toronto) and SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Toronto).

"Hydrogel co-injection and real-time opto-electromagnetic modification device for tunable in-vivo delivery" was invented by Yuta Dobashi (Toronto), Jerry Ku (Toronto), Joel Ramjist (Toronto), Christopher Pasarikovski (Toronto), Konrad Walus (Vancouver, Canada), John Madden (Vancouver, Canada) and Victor Yang (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, devices and methods that enable dynamic modification of the physicochemical pr...