US Patent Issued to Eisai R&D Management on Nov. 3 for "Ionizable lipids for nucleic acid delivery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,050, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Eisai R&D Management Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Ionizable lipids for nucleic acid delivery" was invented by Kenzo Arai (Ibaraki, Japan), Masashi Seki (Ibaraki, Japan), Yosuke Kaburagi (Ibaraki, Japan), Taro Asaba (Ibaraki, Japan), Takayuki Miyazaki (Ibaraki, Japan) and Yasuaki Kamada (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an ionizable lipid that can be used for nucleic acid delivery into cytoplasm. An ionizable lipid of the present disclosure is, for example, a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof."

The patent was filed...