US Patent Issued to Washington University on March 31 for "Compositions of drug delivery agents and methods of use thereof" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,157, issued on March 31, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Compositions of drug delivery agents and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jonathan C. Barnes (St. Louis), Xuesong Li (St. Louis), Abigail Delawder (St. Louis) and Ruihan Li (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods of making and using drug-binding polymers or nanoparticles for targeted therapies. In some embodiments the drug-binding polymers or nanoparticles can deliver two or more of an antibiotic, an alkali or transition metal cation, or anticancer agents."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2019, under ...