ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,335, issued on April 7, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Platinum-based drug-/photosensitizer-loaded protein nanoparticle, and preparation method therefor and application thereof" was invented by Hong Yang (Suzhou, China), Tao Xu (Suzhou, China), Huabing Chen (Suzhou, China), Miya Zhang (Suzhou, China), Liang Chen (Suzhou, China), Yibin Deng (Suzhou, China), Jialu Yao (Suzhou, China), Jiali Luo (Suzhou, China) and Yanhua Zhai (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platinum-based drug/photosensitizer-loaded protein nanoparticle, and a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The platinum-bas...