US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on July 14 for "Drug loaded peptide brush polymers" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,510, issued on July 14, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Drug loaded peptide brush polymers" was invented by Nathan C. Gianneschi (Evanston, Ill.), Matthew P. Thompson (Evanston, Ill.) and Cassandra E. Callmann (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include a polymer comprising: a plurality of repeating units, each repeating unit comprising a polymer backbone group directly or indirectly covalently linked to one or two side chain moieties; wherein: each polymer backbone group is independently a ROMP-polymerized monomer; each one of the one or two side chain moieties independe...