ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,318, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Conn.).

"Anti-guanosine antibody as a molecular delivery vehicle" was invented by James Hansen (Guilford, Conn.) and Jiangbing Zhou (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Guanosine-targeted nanocarriers for encapsulating an active agent and delivering it to extracellular guanosine and DNA are provided. The nanocarriers, for example, polymeric particles, liposomes, and multilamellar vesicles have targeting moiety that targets guanosine attached, linked, or conjugated thereto. The targeting moiety that targets guanosine is typically an antibody, or variant, frag...