US Patent Issued to University of South Florida, Washington University on Aug. 18 for "Peptide-polynucleotide-hyaluronic acid nanoparticles and methods for polynucleotide transfection" (Florida, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,656, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.) and Washington University (St. Louis).

"Peptide-polynucleotide-hyaluronic acid nanoparticles and methods for polynucleotide transfection" was invented by Samuel A. Wickline (Temple Terrace, Fla.), Hua Pan (Tampa, Fla.), Christine Thien-Nga Pham (St. Louis) and Huimin Yan (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to nanoparticles and methods for polynucleotide transfection."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2022, under Application No. 18/056,823.

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