US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on March 31 for "Macroporous solid hard microneedles with embedded particulate drugs" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,229, issued on March 31, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Macroporous solid hard microneedles with embedded particulate drugs" was invented by Sameer Sonkusale (Medford, Mass.), Aydin Sadeqi (Medford, Mass.), Hojatollah Rezaei Nejad (Boston), Jake Lombardo (Boston) and Konstantinos Tzortzakis (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides microneedles and microneedle patches for transdermal drug delivery and methods of making and using the same. The microneedles are porous and contain a drug in particulate form within the pores."

The patent was filed on Nov. 13, 2023, under Applic...