US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM on June 30 for "Compounds for drug delivery across blood-brain barrier" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,610, issued on June 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston).

"Compounds for drug delivery across blood-brain barrier" was invented by Bin Guo (Sugar Land, Texas), Damith Gomika Udugamasooriya (Katy, Texas), Xinli Liu (Sugar Land, Texas), Satya Prakash Shukla (Houston), Kwang Bog Cho (Houston) and Xue Zhou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds disclosed herein have been shown to bind to the transferrin receptor making them capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and useful for treating diseases or disorders of the brain, such as cancer, ischemic stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or Parkinson's disea...