US Patent Issued to ModernaTX on Feb. 17 for "Crystal forms of amino lipids" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,738, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ModernaTX Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Crystal forms of amino lipids" was invented by Orn Almarsson (Cambridge, Mass.) and Eugene Cheung (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are novel solid forms of each of four compounds: (1) heptadecan-9-yl 8-((2-hydroxyethyl)amino)octanoate ("Compound 1"), (2) heptadecan-9-yl 8-((2-hydroxyethyl)(6-oxo-6-(undecyloxy)hexyl)amino)octanoate ("Compound 2"), (3) heptadecan-9-yl 8-((2-hydroxyethyl)(8-(nonyloxy)-8-oxooctyl)amino)octanoate ("Compound 3"), and (6Z,9Z,28Z,31Z)-heptatriaconta-6,9,28,31-tetraen-19-yl 4-(dimethylamino)butanoate ("...