ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,468, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MPEG LA LLC (Chevy Chase, Md.).

"Defined multi-conjugates oligonucleotides" was invented by Philipp Hadwiger (Kulmbach, Germany), Hans-Peter Vornlocher (Kulmbach, Germany), Jonathan Miles Brown (Silver Spring, Md.), James Everett Dahlman (Atlanta) and Kristin K. H. Neuman (Larchmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Defined multi-conjugate oligonucleotides can have predetermined sizes and compositions. For example, in various embodiment, defined multi-conjugate oligonucleotides can have advantageous properties, for example in the form of defined multi-conjugate siRNA (i.e., including two, th...