US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 14 for "Algae-based microrobot for drug delivery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,514, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Algae-based microrobot for drug delivery" was invented by Joseph Wang (La Jolla, Calif.), Liangfang Zhang (La Jolla, Calif.), Fangyu Zhang (La Jolla, Calif.) and Jia Zhuang (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microalgae combined with antibiotic-loaded neutrophil membrane-coated polymeric nanoparticles provide a hybrid microrobot having robust locomotion in the lungs in vivo toward effective treatment of pulmonary and gastrointestinal tract infections. The algae-nanoparticle hybrid microrobots are provided in methods of...