US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Jan. 20 for "Click chemistry capturable platinum-based antineoplastic agents" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,871, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Click chemistry capturable platinum-based antineoplastic agents" was invented by Joseph Thomas Delaney Jr. (Minneapolis), Sarah Melissa Gruba (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Tatyana Dyndikova (Minneapolis), Paul Vincent Grosso (Maple Grove, Minn.), Amanda Maxwell (Minnetonka, Minn.), Ajay Gupta (Minneapolis), Andrew J. Ro (Plymouth, Minn.) and Douglas Pennington (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chemotherapy agent comprising a chemotherapy group and a ligand secured to the chemotherapy group is disclosed, the ligand comprising a r...