ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,257, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sanegene Bio USA Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Polyhydroxylated cyclopentane derivatives and methods of use" was invented by Weimin Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Xiaochuan Cai (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides linker compounds of Formula (I) or (II): pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and related scaffolds and conjugates. The present disclosure also relates to uses of the linker compounds, scaffolds, and conjugates, e.g., in delivering nucleic acid and/or treating or preventing diseases."

The patent was filed on Oct. 5, 2022, under Application No...