ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,759, issued on July 22, was assigned to WESTFALISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT MUNSTER (Munster, Germany), UNIVERSITAT PADERBORN (Paderborn, Germany) and BIOLITEC RESEARCH GMBH (Jena, Germany).

"Polymer-particle light-cleavable carrier systems for photodynamic therapy" was invented by Klaus Langer (Munster, Germany), Juliane Anderski (Bernkastel-kues, Germany), Laura Mahlert (Bochum, Germany), Dennis Mulac (Munster, Germany), Dirk Kuckling (Paderborn, Germany), Jingjiang Sun (Paderborn, Germany), Wolfgang Birnbaum (Paderborn, Germany), Arno Wiehe (Berlin), Gerhard Dieter Wieland (Jena, Germany) and Volker Albrecht (Nuthetal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...