US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Oct. 21 for "Drug delivery compositions and applications thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,475, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Drug delivery compositions and applications thereof" was invented by Alexander Kabanov (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Duhyeong Hwang (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Marina Sokolsky (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, amphiphilic block copolymers are described herein comprising a first block and a second block, the second block including monomer having a side chain comprising a heteroaryl moiety, wherein the second block is more hydrophobic than the first block. In some embodiments, the heteroaryl moiety is a five-m...