US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on June 30 for "Ballistic delivery and related particles, compositions, methods and systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,484, issued on June 30, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Ballistic delivery and related particles, compositions, methods and systems" was invented by Benjamin J. Laccetti (Pasadena, Calif.) and Julia A. Kornfield (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems and related particles and compositions that can be used to deliver a biologically active cargo such as a drug to a cornea of an individual, the delivery performed in a rapid, nonsurgical, and/or controllable fashion are described. Particularly, a method is described for controlled ballistic delivery of a cargo in a mic...