US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut on Oct. 6 for "Assisted loading of hydrophobic molecules into liposomes" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,922, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Assisted loading of hydrophobic molecules into liposomes" was invented by Evgueni Pinkhassik (Newton, Mass.), Sergey Dergunov (Vernon, Conn.) and Weiyu Zhang (Willington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is concerned with unilamellar liposomes and methods of making same. The disclosed unilamellar liposomes can be useful in, for example, delivering a cargo molecule (e.g., a nucleic acid) and also in inducing an immune response. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and ...