US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on July 8 for "Polymeric drug delivery conjugates and methods of making and using thereof" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,337, issued on July 8, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Polymeric drug delivery conjugates and methods of making and using thereof" was invented by Jiyuan Yang (Salt Lake City), Lian Li (Salt Lake City), C. Matthew Peterson (Bountiful, Utah) and Jindrich Kopecek (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are biodegradable drug delivery conjugates and anti-cancer conjugates for effectively delivering anti-cancer agents to a subject. The conjugates include a single first cleavable peptide linker covalently connected to two polymeric segments, wherein at least one PD-L1 inhibi...