US Patent Issued to University of Georgia Research Foundation on Jan. 13 for "Nanoparticles for targeted non-surgical spaying and neutering" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,354, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. (Athens, Ga.).

"Nanoparticles for targeted non-surgical spaying and neutering" was invented by Sheba M. J. MohanKumar (Athens, Ga.), Puliyur S. MohanKumar (Athens, Ga.) and Yen-Jun Chuang (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nanoparticles and formulations for non-surgical sterilization are disclosed herein. The nanoparticles for non-surgical sterilization contains a cage, such as a zeolitic imidazolate framework ("ZIF"), a surface modifying agent, a targeting ligand, and an active agent. The surface modifying agent is attached to the outer s...