US Patent Issued to Slingshot Biosciences on June 30 for "Size-tunable synthetic particles with tunable optical properties and methods for using the same for immune cell activation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,427, issued on June 30, was assigned to Slingshot Biosciences Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Size-tunable synthetic particles with tunable optical properties and methods for using the same for immune cell activation" was invented by Daixuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Solomon Stonebloom (Emeryville, Calif.), Juan Armas (Emeryville, Calif.), Harini Kethar (Danville, Calif.), Sunil Thomas (San Bruno, Calif.) and Martina De Geus (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogel particle, comprising a matrix comprising a polymerized monomer, said matrix comprising a plurality of micropores and a plurality of macropores, and one or mo...