US Patent Issued to NOF, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Lipid nanoparticle used for delivering nucleic acid to brain tissue" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,979, issued on May 12, was assigned to NOF Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Chiba, Japan).

"Lipid nanoparticle used for delivering nucleic acid to brain tissue" was invented by Kota Tange (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroki Yoshioka (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuta Nakai (Kawasaki, Japan), Hidetaka Akita (Chiba, Japan), Yu Sakurai (Chiba, Japan), Hiroki Tanaka (Chiba, Japan) and Shoya Fujita (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a lipid nanoparticle used for delivering a nucleic acid to a brain tissue, including an ionic lipid represented by the formula (1), phospholipid, cholester...