ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,022, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Biocompatible nanocomposite hydrogel immunotherapy vaccines and methods of use thereof" was invented by Farhad Dastmalchi (Gainesville, Fla.), Maryam Rahman (Gainesville, Fla.), Thomas Ettor Angelini (Gainesville, Fla.), Hector R. Mendez-Gomez (Gainesville, Fla.) and Elias Sayour (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes biocompatible, nanocomposite hydrogel compositions and vaccines, where the compositions and vaccines include a biocompatible hydrogel material, a plurality of immune stimulatin...