US Patent Issued to ModernaTX on April 7 for "Carbonate containing lipid compounds and compositions for intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,226, issued on April 7, was assigned to ModernaTX Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Carbonate containing lipid compounds and compositions for intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents" was invented by Kerry E. Benenato (Cambridge, Mass.), Souvik Biswas (Cambridge, Mass.), Mark Cornebise (Cambridge, Mass.), Edward Hennessy (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ellalahewage S. Kumarasinghe (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure features novel lipids and compositions involving the same. Lipid nanoparticles (e.g., empty LNPs or loaded LNPs) include a novel lipid as well as additional lipids such as phospholipids, structural lipids, ...