US Patent Issued to University of Otago on June 17 for "Acoustic driven drug delivery systems" (New Zealander, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,815, issued on June 17, was assigned to University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand).

"Acoustic driven drug delivery systems" was invented by John Noble James Reynolds (Dunedin, New Zealand), Eng Wui Tan (Dunedin, New Zealand), Brian Ian Hyland (Dunedin, New Zealand), Guy Nicholas Louis Jameson (Dunedin, New Zealand), Maung Mo Aung Myint (Dunedin, New Zealand), Sean Marshall Mackay (Dunedin, New Zealand) and Jeffery Russell Wickens (Okinawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides acoustically activated liposome compositions for use as drug delivery vehicles, and to methods for drug release and drug delivery...