US Patent Issued to KYOTO UNIVERSITY, DAICEL on Sept. 1 for "Surface-modified nanoparticle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,895, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan) and DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Surface-modified nanoparticle" was invented by Masahiro Nishikawa (Tokyo) and Naoki Komatsu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a surface-modified nanoparticle that can be easily produced and can selectively deliver boron atoms into cancer cells and maintain the boron atoms, and a method for producing the surface-modified nanoparticle. The surface-modified nanoparticle of the present disclosure includes a nanocarbon material, and a surface-modifying group of the nanocarbon material, and has a group containin...