ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,111, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Ionizable lipids with bioactive motifs" was invented by James Dahlman (Atlanta), Marine Z.C. Hatit (Atlanta) and Huanzhen Ni (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are ionizable lipids containing a piperazine moiety, as well as lipid nanoparticles that can be formed using the ionizable lipids for use in delivering nucleic acids and other therapeutic agents to specific cell types."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2022, under Application No. 18/723,199.

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