ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,029, issued on March 17, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Noncompetitive receptor-targeted vaccine delivery to plasmacytoid dendritic cells" was invented by Shiva Kumar Jai Simha Rudra (St. Louis) and Zoe Clapacs (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a hydrogel scaffold, methods of generating a hydrogel scaffold, and systems for and methods of using the hydrogel scaffold to produce biologically active molecules."

The patent was filed on July 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/221,262.

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