US Patent Issued to NOVO NORDISK on Jan. 20 for "Double-stranded nucleic acid inhibitor molecules with shortened sense strands" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,053, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NOVO NORDISK A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Double-stranded nucleic acid inhibitor molecules with shortened sense strands" was invented by Bob Dale Brown (Littleton, Mass.), Weimin Wang (Waltham, Mass.) and Naim Nazef (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are double-stranded nucleic acid inhibitor molecules having a shortened sense strand with a stem loop structure and an antisense strand. Also provided are methods and compositions for reducing target gene expression and methods and compositions for treating a disease of interest."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2020, u...