US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Sept. 29 for "Flexible light-integrated microneedle therapy device" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,379, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Flexible light-integrated microneedle therapy device" was invented by Yajie Dong (Orlando, Fla.) and Swaminathan Rajaraman (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable therapeutic device integrates a flexible light-emitting layer with a microneedle array for simultaneous phototherapy and transdermal drug delivery. The device includes a flexible substrate supporting a quantum dot light-emitting diode (QLED), organic light-emitting diode (OLED), or LED system, emitting therapeutic light at a wavelength optimize...