US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on June 2 for "Polymer excipients for biopharmaceutical formulations" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,968, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Polymer excipients for biopharmaceutical formulations" was invented by Eric A. Appel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Caitlin Maikawa (Boston) and Joseph L. Mann (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyacrylamide-based copolymer reduces or prevents aggregation of biologic molecules including proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids, and lipid-based vehicles such as liposomes, lipid nanoparticles, polymerosomes, and micelles, in aqueous formulations at hydrophobic interfaces, thereby increasing the thermal sta...