ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,098, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LONZA SALES AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Methods of producing extracellular vesicles" was invented by Raymond Bourdeau (Cambridge, Mass.), Su Chul Jang (Cambridge, Mass.), Rane Harrison (Cambridge, Mass.), Conlin O'Neil (Cambridge, Mass.) and Aaron Noyes (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of preparing EVs, e.g., exosomes, associated with or encapsulated various cyclic dinucleotides, including STING agonists. Also provided herein are methods of loading EVs, e.g., exosomes, with various cyclic dinucleotides, including STING agonists."

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