US Patent Issued to NOF, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Cationic lipid having cystine skeleton" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,878, issued on May 12, was assigned to NOF Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Chiba, Japan).

"Cationic lipid having cystine skeleton" was invented by Shinya Tamagawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Kota Tange (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuta Nakai (Kawasaki, Japan), Masamichi Tamada (Kawasaki, Japan), Hidetaka Akita (Chiba, Japan), Hiroki Tanaka (Chiba, Japan) and Yu Sakurai (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, a cationic lipid represented by the formula (1) (wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification), a lipid membrane structure using the aforementioned cationic lipid, a ...