US Patent Issued to LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY on July 29 for "Apolipoprotein nanodiscs with telodendrimer" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,512, issued on July 29, was assigned to LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Apolipoprotein nanodiscs with telodendrimer" was invented by Juntao Luo (Jamesville, N.Y.), Wei He (Davis, Calif.), Kit S. Lam (Davis, Calif.), Paul Henderson (Dublin, Calif.) and Matthew A. Coleman (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a nanodisc with a membrane scaffold protein. The nanodisc includes a membrane scaffold protein, a telodendrimer and a lipid. The membrane scaffold protein can be apolipoprotein. The telodendrimer has the general formula PEG-L-D-(R)n, wherein D is a dendritic p...