US Patent Issued to ImmunityBio on Oct. 21 for "Enzyme based system for production of messenger RNA with increased transfection efficiency" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,638, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ImmunityBio Inc. (San Diego).

"Enzyme based system for production of messenger RNA with increased transfection efficiency" was invented by Brett Morimoto (Culver City, Calif.), Kayvan Niazi (Culver City, Calif.), Annie Shin (Culver City, Calif.), Lise Geissert (Culver City, Calif.) and Philip T. Liu (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the production of proteins used in the in vitro transcription (IVT) of messenger RNA (mRNA), wherein the proteins are evaluated for purity and efficacy by the efficiency with which mRNA synthetically derived therefrom, subsequently tra...