US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on Nov. 18 for "RNA nanostructures and methods of making and using RNA nanostructures" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,553, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"RNA nanostructures and methods of making and using RNA nanostructures" was invented by Hao Yan (Chandler, Ariz.), Yung Chang (Tempe, Ariz.), Xiaowei Liu (Tempe, Ariz.), Fei Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Xiaodong Qi (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments provide RNA nanostructure (e.g., comprising one single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) molecule, wherein the RNA nanostructure comprises at least one paranemic cohesion crossover), as well as compositions and methods of use thereof. In certain embod...