US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK on May 26 for "Nanoemulsion with porphyrin shell" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,384, issued on May 26, was assigned to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (Toronto).

"Nanoemulsion with porphyrin shell" was invented by Gang Zheng (Toronto), Juan Chen (Toronto), Wenxiu Hou (Shanghai) and Jiachuan Bu (Toronto, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described herein a nanoparticle comprising an outer shell comprising a porphyrin salt, an expanded porphyrin salt or an analog of porphyrin salt, around an inner oil core."

The patent was filed on May 6, 2020, under Application No. 17/608,911.

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