US Patent Issued to WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Implantable constructs and uses thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,300, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston).

"Implantable constructs and uses thereof" was invented by Omid Veiseh (Houston), Amanda Nash (Houston), Maria Isabel Jarvis-Ruocco (Houston), Sudip Mukherjee (Houston), Michael David Doerfert (Houston), Samira Aghlara-Fotovat (Houston) and David Yu Zhang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to implantable constructs designed to deliver antigenic therapeutic reagents to a subject while providing protection from host immune responses. In certain aspects, the constructs are designed to degrade over time or upon a particular s...