ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,259, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ModernaTX Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Fed-batch in vitro transcription process" was invented by Joseph Elich (Cambridge, Mass.), Amy E. Rabideau (Waltham, Mass.), Michael Shamashkin (Cambridge, Mass.), Rosalie Philpot (Cambridge, Mass.), Brian Fritz (Norwood, Mass.) and Peter Wojciechowski (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of in vitro transcribing a ribonucleic acid (RNA) of interest. In some embodiments, such methods include determining consumption rates of nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs)."
The patent was filed on March 11, 2020, under Applic...