US Patent Issued to TRANSLATE BIO on Sept. 29 for "Pumpless encapsulation of messenger RNA" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,203, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TRANSLATE BIO INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Pumpless encapsulation of messenger RNA" was invented by Shrirang Karve (Lexington, Mass.), Priyal Patel (Lexington, Mass.), Natalia Vargas Montoya (Lexington, Mass.), Frank DeRosa (Lexington, Mass.) and Michael Heartlein (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, among other things, a process of encapsulating messenger RNA (mRNA) in liposomes comprising a. providing a first stream comprising an mRNA solution at a first controlled flow rate, b. providing a second stream comprising a lipid solution at a second controll...