US Patent Issued to DEVELOPPEMENT MONDIAL NANOTECH on Sept. 15 for "Self-assembled peptide nanorods and uses thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,458, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DEVELOPPEMENT MONDIAL NANOTECH INC. (Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada).

"Self-assembled peptide nanorods and uses thereof" was invented by Steve Bourgault (Montreal), Denis Archambault (Longueuil, Canada), Ximena Zottig (Montreal) and Soultan Al-Halifa (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-assembling, cytocompatible peptides having the ability to form uniform nanorod assemblies are described. These peptides comprise a self-assembling Beta-sheet peptide and an amino terminal positively charged amino acid or amino acid analog, such as a lysine residue. Constructs comprising an antigen cova...