US Patent Issued to TRANSLATE BIO on Feb. 17 for "Methods and compositions for delivering mRNA coded antibodies" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,858, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TRANSLATE BIO INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Methods and compositions for delivering mRNA coded antibodies" was invented by Michael Heartlein (Lexington, Mass.), Frank DeRosa (Lexington, Mass.), Anusha Dias (Lexington, Mass.) and Braydon Charles Guild (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, among other things, methods and compositions for delivering an antibody in vivo by administering to a subject in need thereof one or more mRNAs encoding a heavy chain and a light chain of an antibody, and wherein the antibody is expressed systemically in the subject. In some...