US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on March 18 for "Surfactin-based lipopeptide for mRNA delivery" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,477, issued on March 18, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Surfactin-based lipopeptide for mRNA delivery" was invented by Mohammed Saeed Alqahtani (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surfactin-based lipopeptides for mRNA delivery are made by a method including providing OleSurf lipids to form an organic phase, mixing a mRNA in 100 mM citrate buffer at pH 4 to form an aqueous phase, mixing one part of the organic phase with three parts of the aqueous phase to obtain mRNA loaded lipid nanoparticles, purifying the mRNA loaded lipid nanoparticle platform using dialysis, and purifying the mRNA...