US Patent Issued to TRANSLATE BIO on July 14 for "Process of preparing ice-based lipid nanoparticles" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,406, issued on July 14, was assigned to TRANSLATE BIO INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Process of preparing ice-based lipid nanoparticles" was invented by Monic Shah (Lexington, Mass.), Travis Jeannotte (Lexington, Mass.), Yi Zhang (Lexington, Mass.), Shrirang Karve (Lexington, Mass.), Kimberly Gillis (Lexington, Mass.) and Frank DeRosa (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an improved process for lipid nanoparticle formulation and mRNA encapsulation. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a process of encapsulating messenger RNA (mRNA) in lipid nanoparticles comprising a step of mixing a...