MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517016499 A) filed by Merck Patent Gmbh, Darmstadt, Germany, on Feb. 25, for 'viscosity reducing excipients and combinations thereof for highly concentrated nucleic acid compositions.'

Inventor(s) include Rosenkranz, Tobias; Henzler, Tanja; and Kiesewetter, Andre.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to liquid compositions comprising a nucleic acid having a reduced viscosity. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods for reducing the viscosity of a liquid compositions comprising a nucleic acid."...