US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University on Oct. 6 for "Ultrasmall gas-filled protein nanostructures" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,209, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University.

"Ultrasmall gas-filled protein nanostructures" was invented by Jiaozhi Lu (Houston), Zongru Li (Nanjing, China) and Qionghua Shen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present disclosure describes ultrasmall gas vesicle compositions comprising modified gas vesicle shell proteins. Also disclosed herein are polynucleotide sequences which encode such compositions. Methods of treatment comprising administering such gas vesicle compositions are also provided."

The patent was filed on May 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/310,512.

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