US Patent Issued to Qingdao Agricultural University on July 14 for "Natural efficient self-assembled photothermal antibacterial nanoparticle, preparation method therefor and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,833, issued on July 14, was assigned to Qingdao Agricultural University (Qingdao, China).

"Natural efficient self-assembled photothermal antibacterial nanoparticle, preparation method therefor and use thereof" was invented by Jian Ju (Qingdao, China), Fangyuan Zhao (Qingdao, China), Qingli Yang (Qingdao, China) and Guangjie Che (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation process of the natural efficient self-assembled photothermal antibacterial nanoparticle is provided that includes mixing a solution of berberine in methanol and a solution of rhein of methanol to obtain a mixed solution, and then mixing the mixed sol...