ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,245, issued on April 7, was assigned to Translate Bio Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Dry powder formulations for messenger RNA" was invented by Frank DeRosa (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Heartlein (Cambridge, Mass.), Shrirang Karve (Cambridge, Mass.), Zarna Patel (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ashish Sarode (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides stable, dry powder messenger RNA formulations for therapeutic use, and methods of making and using the same."

The patent was filed on May 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/745,428.

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