US Patent Issued to Yale University on Dec. 2 for "Compositions and methods for delivery of nucleic acids to cells" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,180, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).

"Compositions and methods for delivery of nucleic acids to cells" was invented by Elias Quijano (Durham, Conn.) and Peter Glazer (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods of use thereof for delivering nucleic acid cargo into cells are provided. The compositions typically include (a) a 3E10 monoclonal antibody or an antigen binding, cell-penetrating fragment thereof; a monovalent, divalent, or multivalent single chain variable fragment (scFv); or a diabody; or humanized form or variant thereof, and (b) a nucleic acid cargo includin...