US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Aug. 18 for "Delivery of nucleic acids, proteins and small molecules in vitreous vesicular bodies" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,647, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Delivery of nucleic acids, proteins and small molecules in vitreous vesicular bodies" was invented by John TG Pena (New York), Mrinali Patel Gupta (New York) and Donald J. D'Amico (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compositions of aqueous humor and/or vitreous humor derived extracellular vesicles and their use for the delivery of therapeutic agents to ocular tissues for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases. Further disclosed are methods of making the compositions. Methods of treating and diagnosing an ocular condition ar...