US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on July 21 for "Drug delivery system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,747, issued on July 21, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Drug delivery system" was invented by B. Rabindran Jermy (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Vijaya Ravinayagam (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Dana Almohazey (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Hend Ghnaim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Eman Al-Abbad (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery system including a zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), silica, platinum nanoparticles, and polyethylene glycol. The silica penetrates the pores of the ZIF-8 and at least partially envelopes the ZIF-8 to form a ZIF-8/silica composite. The platinum...