US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 14 for "Thermogelling nanoemulsions for pharmaceutical manufacturing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,442, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Thermogelling nanoemulsions for pharmaceutical manufacturing" was invented by Liang-Hsun Chen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Patrick S. Doyle (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions contain nanoparticles containing nanocrystals of hydrophobic therapeutic, diagnostic, prophylactic agents, or a combination thereof, encapsulated in thermogelling polymers, such as methyl cellulose. Because of the templating of the compositions on a thermogelling nanoemulsion system, the compositions can be formed with precise control of the si...