US Patent Issued to Acuitas Therapeutics on June 17 for "Systems and methods for manufacturing lipid nanoparticles and liposomes" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,857, issued on June 17, was assigned to Acuitas Therapeutics Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems and methods for manufacturing lipid nanoparticles and liposomes" was invented by Christopher J. Barbosa (Coquitlam, Canada), Kody Moleschi (Delta, Canada) and David Cretney (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems including specific arrangements of pumps, valves, and conduits, such as for mixing precursors to lipid nanoparticles to form the lipid nanoparticles, are provided. Methods of using such systems to manufacture the lipid nanoparticles are also provided."

The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2019, under Application No...