US Patent Issued to PUKYONG NATIONAL INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION on May 12 for "Compound for photothermal cancer therapy, composition including the same, and method for photothermal cancer therapy" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,966, issued on May 12, was assigned to PUKYONG NATIONAL INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Busan, South Korea).

"Compound for photothermal cancer therapy, composition including the same, and method for photothermal cancer therapy" was invented by Song Yi Lee (Busan, South Korea) and Thanh Chung Pham (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a new compound for photothermal cancer therapy, a composition including the same, and a method for photothermal cancer therapy, and more particularly, a compound that is an organic photosensitizer based on an indan structure, a nanoparticle as a self-assembly thereof,...