US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on Oct. 6 for "Polysaccharide encapsulated oxygen nanobubbles" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,927, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Polysaccharide encapsulated oxygen nanobubbles" was invented by Joseph Maria Kumar Irudayaraj (Champaign, Ill.), Muhammad Fayyaz (Urbana, Ill.), Michael Tsipursky (Champaign, Ill.) and Wen Ren (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unique class of perfluorocarbon-free Dextran-based oxygen nanobubbles (DONBs) and formulations thereof. The critical components in the formulation are chosen among the U.S. Food, and Drug Administration's (FDA) approved compounds, which provide a biocompatible environment for incorporating pha...