US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on April 21 for "Nanodroplet with layer-by-layer assembly" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,470, issued on April 21, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Nanodroplet with layer-by-layer assembly" was invented by Terry O. Matsunaga (Tucson, Ariz.), Pedro Alcaraz (Tucson, Ariz.) and Russell S. Witte (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides novel modified nanodroplets with a layerby-layer (LBL) assembly formulation ("LBLnNDs"). The LBLnNDs of the present disclosure comprise gaseous perfluorocarbon core, polymer shell, and multiple alternating positively and negatively charged biopolymer layers dispersed layerby-layer onto the she...