US Patent Issued to NOF, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Lipid nanoparticle lyophilized composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,445, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NOF Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Chiba, Japan).

"Lipid nanoparticle lyophilized composition" was invented by Kota Tange (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuta Nakai (Kawasaki, Japan), Shinya Tamagawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Sakura Taneichi (Kawasaki, Japan), Hidetaka Akita (Chiba, Japan), Hiroki Tanaka (Chiba, Japan), Daiki Shirane (Chiba, Japan) and Shinya Hagiwara (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lyophilized composition capable of encapsulating any nucleic acid with high efficiency and easily is provided. A lyophilized composition of lipid nanoparticles not co...