ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,986, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for microneedle therapeutic delivery with acoustic signals" was invented by Feng Guo (Bloomington, Ind.), Hongwei Cai (Bloomington, Ind.) and Junhua Xu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for therapeutic delivery. The system includes a microneedle patch and an acoustic transducer configured to alter the delivery of the therapeutic from the patch. The acoustic parameters may be determined from a therapeutic release model. The system may also be contained within a housing which may be at ...