US Patent Issued to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY on June 30 for "Cross-linking compounds and methods of use thereof" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,646, issued on June 30, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Cross-linking compounds and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, N.C.), Hikaru Fujita (Ishikawa, Japan) and Nobuyuki Matsumoto (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds comprising a cross-linking moiety and a protecting group are described herein along with their methods of use. The cross-linking moiety may comprise an indoxyl and the protecting group may comprise a sugar (e.g., a glucuronide or glucoside), phosphoester, or sulfoester group. The cross-linking moiety and protecting group may be attac...