ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,379, issued on May 26, was assigned to SONOTARG Ltd. (Belfast, Great Britain).
"Microbubble-chemotherapeutic agent complex for sonodynamic therapy" was invented by John Callan (Newtownabbey, Great Britain), Anthony McHale (Newtownabbey, Great Britain) and Eleanor Stride (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods of sonodynamic therapy comprising the co-administration of a microbubble-chemotherapeutic agent complex together with a microbubble-sonosensitiser complex. It further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these complexes and their use in methods of sonodynamic therapy and...