US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Fibers of polymers that have a backbone including a positively charged component of a zwitterionic moiety, and their use in implantable therapeutic delivery systems" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,867, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Fibers of polymers that have a backbone including a positively charged component of a zwitterionic moiety, and their use in implantable therapeutic delivery systems" was invented by Minglin Ma (Ithaca, N.Y.), Qingsheng Liu (Ithaca, N.Y.), Xi Wang (Ithaca, N.Y.) and James A. Flanders (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to fibers having a diameter of 1 nm to 10,000 nm, of one or more biocompatible polymers, wherein the polymers have a backbone which includes a positively charged component from a zwitterionic moiety. Addi...