US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Dec. 23 for "Minimal arrestin domain containing protein 1(ARRDC1) constructs" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,497, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Minimal arrestin domain containing protein 1(ARRDC1) constructs" was invented by Quan Lu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Qiyu Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are minimal arrestin domain containing protein 1 (ARRDC1) constructs, which drive the formation of ARRDC1-mediated microvesicles (ARMMs). These vesicles can be harnessed to package and deliver a variety of molecular cargos such as small molecules, nucleic acids, and proteins. An example of such cargo is the genome editor Cas9."

The patent was filed...