US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Amine-containing transfection reagents and methods for making and using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,700, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Amine-containing transfection reagents and methods for making and using same" was invented by Zhiwei Yang (San Diego), Parul Angrish (San Diego), Xavier de Mollerat Du Jeu (Encinitas, Calif.) and Kristin Wiederholt (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided for herein novel amine-containing transfection compounds and methods for making and using same. The compounds are generally obtained by reacting a primary amine with an unsaturated compound. Transfection complexes made using the amine-containing transfection compounds in combin...