US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Triad National Security, The Arizona Board of Regents on Oct. 6 for "Ionic liquids for transdermal drug delivery" (California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,009, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.), Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.) and The Arizona Board of Regents (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

"Ionic liquids for transdermal drug delivery" was invented by Michael Zakrewsky (San Diego), Samir Mitragotri (Lexington, Mass.), David T. Fox (Los Alamos, N.M.), Andrew Koppisch (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Rico Del Sesto (Ivins, Utah) and Katherine Lovejoy (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions and methods described herein are topically applied to the skin with negligible or no skin irritation and can direct or pre...