ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,207, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SOGO PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Lipid and composition" was invented by Tetsuo Koana (Tokyo), Jun Hayashida (Tokyo), Toshinori Takaki (Tokyo), Yohei Tanaka (Tokyo), Nahoko Ozaki (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Asai (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a lipid and a composition that can effectively deliver an introduction compound such as a nucleic acid to a target cell, tissue, or the like in vivo. The lipid of the present invention is a lipid represented by the following formula (I), wherein R1 is a hydrocarbon gr...