ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,708, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dalian Polytechnic University (Dalian, China).

"Marine polysaccharide vector-based anthocyanin nanoparticles, and preparation method therefor and application thereof in targeted delivery" was invented by Mingqian Tan (Dalian, China), Xue Zhao (Dalian, China), Xuedi Zhang (Dalian, China), Shanshan Tie (Dalian, China), Jiyun Cao (Dalian, China) and Yun Li (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides marine polysaccharide vector-based anthocyanin nanoparticles, using marine polysaccharides, food-borne fluorescent nanoparticles and sodium hyaluronate as a composite vector to ...