ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,013, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Extrahepatic delivery" was invented by Jayaprakash K. Nair (Cambridge, Mass.), Martin Maier (Cambridge, Mass.), Vasant Jadhav (Cambridge, Mass.), Stuart Milstein (Cambridge, Mass.), Kirk Brown (Cambridge, Mass.), Rubina G. Parmar (Cambridge, Mass.), Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Cambridge, Mass.), Muthiah Manoharan (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexander V. Kel'in (Cambridge, Mass.), Muthusamy Jayaraman (Cambridge, Mass.), Klaus Charisse (Cambridge, Mass.), Adam Castoreno (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher S. Theile (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kevin Fitzgerald (Cambridge, Mass.).

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