US Patent Issued to Translate Bio on March 17 for "Compositions for delivery of codon-optimized mRNA" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,030, issued on March 17, was assigned to Translate Bio Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Compositions for delivery of codon-optimized mRNA" was invented by John Androsavich (Lexington, Mass.), Lianne Boeglin (Lexington, Mass.), Shraddha Sharma (Lexington, Mass.), Gang Sun (Lexington, Mass.), Neha Kaushal (Lexington, Mass.) and Shrirang Karve (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, among other things, improved pharmaceutical compositions comprising codon-optimized mRNA encoding a peptide or polypeptide encapsulated in a lipid nanoparticle comprising one or more of the cationic lipids that are particul...