US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on Aug. 25 for "Technologies for needles with microchannels" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,839, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Technologies for needles with microchannels" was invented by Chandan K. Sen (Indianapolis) and Yi Xuan (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for delivering an agent to a target recipient includes a planar substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a reservoir defined in the first surface of the planar substrate, and a plurality of microstructures projecting from the second surface of the planar substrate. Each of the plurality of microstructures includes a delivery channel that extends from the reservoir to...