US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Aug. 5 for "Dual-responsive nanoparticles for enhanced antibacterial efficacy" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,052, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Dual-responsive nanoparticles for enhanced antibacterial efficacy" was invented by Shaoqin Gong (Middleton, Wis.), Mingzhou Ye (Madison, Wis.) and David R. Andes (Verona, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are biodegradable polymers and nanoparticles comprising such polymers. The present nanoparticles deliver antibiotics to infected tissue with enhanced antibacterial efficacy. Thus, the present technology provides a nanoparticle comprising: a surface comprising one or more polysaccharides having specific binding affinity for ...