ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,044, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Longitude Therapeutics S.R.L. (Italy).
"Platelet-facilitated delivery of therapeutic compounds" was invented by Giannoula Lakka Klement (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods comprising platelets loaded with an agent. Agents loaded into platelets are generally protected from degradation and the subject is protected from toxicity, if any, from the agent. These benefits, coupled with the platelets' natural ability to home to sites of injury, inflammation, and/or angiogenesis, helps ensure that a therapeutically-effective amount of the agent ...