ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,076, issued on July 28, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Methods and compositions related to extracellular vesicles" was invented by Tatiana Nanovskaya (Galveston, Texas), Erik Rytting (Galveston, Texas), Mansi Shah (Galveston, Texas), Svetlana Patrikeeva (Galveston, Texas) and Xiaoming Wang (Galveston, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments are directed to methods and compositions related to delivery of therapeutic agents via syncytiotrophoblast-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs)."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2021, under Application No. 17/355,290.

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