US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on May 12 for "Devices, systems, and methods for facilitating tissue delivery of drug" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,868, issued on May 12, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Devices, systems, and methods for facilitating tissue delivery of drug" was invented by Mohammed Saad Bhamla (Atlanta), Gaurav Byagathvalli (Cumming, Ga.), Dengning Xia (Shanghai) and Mark R. Prausnitz (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for administering a drug to a biological tissue in a patient, such as by intracellular and/or dermal delivery. The device includes a piezoelectric pulse generator; and an array of microneedle electrodes electrically coupled to the piezoelectric pulse generator, wherein the device, follow...