ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,530, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TIDES BIO S.R.L. (Nus, Italy).

"Conjugated composed of membrane-targeting peptides for extracellular vesicles isolation, analysis and their integration thereof" was invented by Alessandro Gori (Arcore, Italy), Marina Cretich (Milan) and Marcella Chiari (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molecular probe comprising at least one first moiety and at least one second moiety which are each covalently bound to the molecular probe, wherein: the at least one first moiety comprises at least one binding peptide or peptidomimetic for binding the molecular probe to at least one extracellular vesicle ...