US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on July 28 for "Antiviral vaccines using spherical nucleic acids" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,166, issued on July 28, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Antiviral vaccines using spherical nucleic acids" was invented by Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Ill.), Michelle Hope Teplensky (Evanston, Ill.), Max Everett Distler (Evanston, Ill.), Caroline Danielle Kusmierz (San Antonio) and Cassandra Elizabeth Callmann (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs) are chemically well-defined nanoscale architectures comprised of nucleic acids densely arranged around a spherical nanoparticle core in a highly oriented fashion. SNAs are highly modular structures produced by chemical synthesi...