ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,801, issued on July 14, was assigned to Shenzhen MagicRNA Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Amino lipid and preparation method and application thereof" was invented by Gaofeng Zha (Shenzhen, China), Yuexiao Hu (Shenzhen, China), Xinghua Peng (Shenzhen, China) and Wanyin Fang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amino lipid and its preparation method as well as an application thereof is provided, and also provided are ionizable amino lipids with a general formula as shown in Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The amino lipids are used for delivering nucleic acids and small-molecule drugs....