US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 25 for "Extended nitric oxide-releasing polymers via functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,314, issued on March 25, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Extended nitric oxide-releasing polymers via functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles" was invented by Mark H. Schoenfisch (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Maggie Malone-Povolny (Carrboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter disclosed herein is directed to nitric oxide releasing particles comprising a mesoporous silica network. Also disclosed are compositions comprising one or more nitric-oxide releasing particles and a polymer. In one aspect, the particles are admixed with the polymer. The compositions exhi...