ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,066, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Indiana University Research & Technology Corp. (Bloomington, Ind.) and United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Delivery of gene therapy treatments" was invented by Robert Bacallao (Indianapolis), Simon Atkinson (Carmel, Ind.), George J. Rhodes (Fishers, Ind.) and Peter Corridon (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and materials useful delivering liquids, including liquids comprising nucleic acid molecules into cells. In particular, the present invention provides methods for delivering saline solu...