ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,698, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Arytha Biosciences LLC (San Diego).

"Processes and systems for preparing cellular or viral membranes and nanoparticles" was invented by Weiwei Gao (La Jolla, Calif.) and Che-Ming Jack Hu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to processes and systems for preparing nanoparticles, cellular or viral membranes and/or cellular or viral membrane coated nanoparticles using or comprising, inter alia, a multi-inlet vortexing reactor, tangential flow filtration (TFF) and/or a high shear fluid processor such as a microfluidizer (or a microfluidizer processor). The pre...