US Patent Issued to OZYEGIN UNIVERSITESI on July 7 for "System for shape memory alloy enabled drug release" (Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,141, issued on July 7, was assigned to OZYEGIN UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"System for shape memory alloy enabled drug release" was invented by Guney Guven Yapici (Istanbul) and Gorkem Muttalip Simsek (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a drug delivery system that specifically carries and releases an active substance to a target organ or tissue. The coating of the shape memory component constituting the drug delivery system enhances the biocompatibility and controlled delivery of the active substance previously loaded into the coating material to the target organ or tissue."

The patent was filed on Dec. 31, 2020, under...