US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Aug. 11 for "Methods for making microneedles using adjustment of component solubility in casting formulations" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,807, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Methods for making microneedles using adjustment of component solubility in casting formulations" was invented by Richard N. Terry (Atlanta) and Mark R. Prausnitz (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided that involve the intentional and controlled precipitation of a drug or active agent, or a reduction of solubility of a polymer or other film-forming component of a formulation, or a combination of both methods, to improve the processes for making microneedles or other objects by casting into molds and the resulting parts produced by ca...