US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on June 2 for "Composition and method for treating COVID-19" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,799, issued on June 2, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Composition and method for treating COVID-19" was invented by Subhra Mohapatra (Lutz, Fla.), Shyam S. Mohapatra (Lutz, Fla.), Karthick Mayilsamy (Tampa, Fla.), Eleni Markoutsa (Tampa, Fla.) and Andrew McGill (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanosystem and methods of treating, including prophylactically, coronavirus infections, such as those caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), by administering such nanosystem to a patient is presented. The nanosystem may be comprised of a single or a combination of therape...