US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on July 7 for "Multi-functional cancer drug delivery nanodevice for precision medicine" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,105, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Multi-functional cancer drug delivery nanodevice for precision medicine" was invented by Carlos Castro (Columbus, Ohio), Christopher Lucas (Columbus, Ohio), Patrick Halley (Columbus, Ohio) and John Byrd (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are DNA origami nanostmcture that can be functionalized for personalized and targeted drug delivery. The disclosed nanostructures enter cells through the endolysosomal pathway and circumvent drug resistance mechanisms in target cells. The disclosed nanostructures can be loaded small ...