US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on July 14 for "Polymeric carriers for delivery of therapeutic agents" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,448, issued on July 14, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Polymeric carriers for delivery of therapeutic agents" was invented by Song Li (Mars, Pa.), Yixian Huang (Pittsburgh) and Haozhe Huang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer includes a hydrophobic polymer backbone, a first plurality of pendant groups attached to the hydrophobic polymer backbone and including a first moiety including at least one group selected for ionic interaction with a second therapeutic agent, and a second plurality of pendant groups attached to the hydrophobic polymer backb...