US Patent Issued to Punjab University Chandigarh on April 14 for "Solid lipid nanoparticles of curcumin" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,572, issued on April 14, was assigned to Punjab University Chandigarh (Chandigarh, India).

"Solid lipid nanoparticles of curcumin" was invented by Indu Pal Kaur (Chandigarh, India), Vandita Kakkar (Chandigarh, India), Simarjot Kaur Sandhu (Chandigarh, India) and Tanvi Gupta (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a process for preparing solid lipid nanoparticles of curcumin. Also provided herein are solid lipid nanoparticles of curcumin having a particle size in the range of 20-800 nm. The solid lipid nanoparticles of curcumin show a very high entrapment efficiency of curcumin in the range of 50-100% in ...