ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,679, issued on April 14, was assigned to Orna Therapeutics Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Circular RNA compositions" was invented by Amy M. Becker (Lexington, Mass.), Robert Alexander Wesselhoeft IV (Somerville, Mass.), Akinola O. Emmanuel (Cambridge, Mass.), Jui Dutta-Simmons (Sudbury, Mass.), Allen T. Horhota (Westford, Mass.), Kevin J. Kauffman (Newton, Mass.), Bun Chau (Needham, Mass.) and Thomas Lee (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are circular RNA constructs comprising an IRES, and at least one expression sequence encoding binding molecule, compositions thereof, and methods of treatment, including fo...