US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Aug. 11 for "Superoxide dismutase-loaded porous polymersomes as highly efficient antioxidant nanoparticles" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,699, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Superoxide dismutase-loaded porous polymersomes as highly efficient antioxidant nanoparticles" was invented by Zhiliang Cheng (Newtown, Pa.), Andrew Tsourkas (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) and Ling Qin (Moorestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Therapeutic compositions, comprising: an anti-reactive oxygen species agent and a pervious polymersome, the pervious polymersome encapsulating the anti-reactive oxygen species agent, and the pervious polymersome having therein channels defined by a channel diblock copolymer, the channels being arrang...