US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Alessa Therapeutics on March 17 for "Implantable drug delivery devices for localized drug delivery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,063, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Alessa Therapeutics Inc. (San Francisco).

"Implantable drug delivery devices for localized drug delivery" was invented by Carlos Schuler (San Francisco), Maithili Rairkar (San Francisco), Pujan Desai (Oakland, Calif.), Maxime Daud (San Francisco), Maxime D. Rappaport (San Francisco), Pamela Munster (San Francisco), John Maroney (San Francisco), Margaret McLaughlin (San Francisco), Tobias H. Casab (San Francisco), Keith Hall (San Francisco) and Scott Thomas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are drug i...