US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on July 28 for "Living cells engineered with polyphenol-functionalized biologically active nanocomplexes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,514, issued on July 28, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

"Living cells engineered with polyphenol-functionalized biologically active nanocomplexes" was invented by Samir Mitragotri (Lexington, Mass.), Zongmin Zhao (Cambridge, Mass.) and Junling Guo (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are functionalizing nanocomplexes comprising one or more polyphenol molecules; and one or more biomolecules. Further described herein are functionalized cells comprising one or more of the nanocomplexes. In some embodiments, the biomolecules can be therapeutic agents and the functionalized cells can ...