US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Sept. 9 for "Geometrically complex intravaginal rings, systems and methods of making the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,134, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Geometrically complex intravaginal rings, systems and methods of making the same" was invented by Soumya Rahima Benhabbour (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Rima Janusziewicz (Durham, N.C.) and Sue J. Mecham (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Geometrically complex intravaginal rings, systems and methods of making the same are provided herein. Disclosed herein are geometrically complex intravaginal rings with tunable and enhanced drug release, which in some embodiments can be fabricated by 3D printing technologies. The disc...