ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,872, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"PEGylated ICD inducer-IDO inhibitor nanoconjugate, and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Xinyi Jiang (Jinan, China), Wei Du (Jinan, China), Chen Chen (Jinan, China), Jing Zhang (Jinan, China) and Chunwei Tang (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PEGylated ICD inducer-IDO inhibitor nanoconjugate and a preparation method and use thereof. The nanoconjugate has a structural formula as follows:where R is H orwith a weight-average molecular weight of 1000-5000. For the PEGylated ICD inducer-IDO inhibitor nanoconjugate provided in an aqu...