ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,095, issued on March 24, was assigned to CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICHERCHE (Rome) and ATLANTIC TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Ballinode, Ireland).

"Extracellular vesicles from microalgae" was invented by Antonella Bongiovanni (Palermo, Italy), Mauro Manno (Palermo, Italy), Gabriella Pocsfalvi (Naples, Italy) and Nicolas Touzet (Clarina, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extracellular vesicles derived from native, photosynthetic, non-fermenting microalgae are provided. A method for isolating extracellular vesicles from native, photosynthetic, non-fermenting microalgae involving growth, centrifugation and ultracentrifugation steps i...