US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Aug. 11 for "Edible plant exosome-like nanovectors for vaccination" (Kentucky Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,703, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Edible plant exosome-like nanovectors for vaccination" was invented by Huang-Ge Zhang (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions and methods for using the same. In some embodiments, the compositions include an EPELN encapsulating and/or having associated therewith an active agent and a plasma membrane derived from a tumor and/or cancer cell coating the EPELN. In some embodiments, the active agent is a therapeutic agent or an immune response modifier, and in some embodiments the plasma membrane h...