US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Use of electricity to enhance the delivery of pharmaceutical agents and other substances into the surface mucosa and wall of the ureter and renal pelvis, and into the renal parenchyma" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,567, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Use of electricity to enhance the delivery of pharmaceutical agents and other substances into the surface mucosa and wall of the ureter and renal pelvis, and into the renal parenchyma" was invented by Ralph V. Clayman (Orange, Calif.), Jamie Landman (Orange, Calif.), Seyed Hossein Hosseini Sharifi (Orange, Calif.) and Pengbo Jiang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical urology device for drug delivery to the lining and deeper tissues of the ureter and kidney. The present invention features an electromotive drug ad...