US Patent Issued to University of Georgia Research Foundation on Aug. 18 for "Methods of making targeted vesicles, and compositions made thereby" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,670, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. (Athens, Ga.).

"Methods of making targeted vesicles, and compositions made thereby" was invented by Arthur Roberts (Athens, Ga.), Mandi Murph (Athens, Ga.), Sudeepti Kuppa (Athens, Ga.) and Pragati Jain (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functionalized lipid vesicles having a lipid membrane and a functional element, and methods of making them are provided. The methods of making the vesicles typically include mixing lipid vesicles formed of one or more lipids with one or more lipid conjugates and dialyzing the mixture for an effective amoun...