US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO on June 23 for "Medical instrument" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,435, issued on June 23, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Medical instrument" was invented by Yuki Akagi (Tokyo), Yasutaka Anraku (Tokyo), Ichiro Sakuma (Tokyo) and Hayato Laurence Mizuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a medical instrument that is inserted into an affected area or tissue to perform treatment, a technique of delivering various drugs to a target site is desired.Provided is a medical instrument that is inserted into an affected area or tissue to perform treatment, wherein a drug-loaded nanostructure is covalently bound to the medical instrument via a photosensitive linker immobilized on the sur...