US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on June 30 for "Immunotherapeutic nanoparticles and methods relating thereto" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,585, issued on June 30, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Immunotherapeutic nanoparticles and methods relating thereto" was invented by Dawen Zhao (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Yang Liu (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Neil William Crowe (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions containing lipid nanoparticles and nucleic acid therapeutic agents are disclosed. For example, calcium phosphate nanoparticles having a lipid coating are provided, wherein the calcium phosphate nanoparticles include a cyclic dinucleotide and the lipid coating includes phosphatidylserine. The compositions c...