US Patent Issued to Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University on Aug. 11 for "Devices, methods, and compositions for thermal acceleration and drug delivery" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,478, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, R.I.) and Brown University (Providence, R.I.).

"Devices, methods, and compositions for thermal acceleration and drug delivery" was invented by William Keun Chan Park (Westerly, R.I.) and Damian E. Dupuy (Centerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal accelerant can be used as a drug delivery vehicle to deliver one or more drugs to a target site. For example, in some embodiments, a carrier such as albumin or human serum albumin (HSA) can be impregnated with, or covalently attached to, an anti-tumor agent and delivered to a location proximate to a t...