ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,304, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUZHOU RIBO LIFE SCIENCE Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Nucleic acid, pharmaceutical composition, conjugate, preparation method, and use" was invented by Hongyan Zhang (Suzhou, China), Shan Gao (Suzhou, China) and Daiwu Kang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An siRNA which inhibits kininogen (KNG) gene expression, a pharmaceutical composition containing the siRNA, and an siRNA conjugate. Each nucleotide in the siRNA is independently a modified or unmodified nucleotide. The siRNA contains a sense strand an antisense strand. The sense strand contains nucleotide sequence I, nucleotide se...