ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,100, issued on June 17, was assigned to LONZA SALES AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Exosomes for immuno-oncology and anti-inflammatory therapy" was invented by Nuruddeen D. Lewis (Andover, Mass.), Yu Zhou (Somerville, Mass.), Sriram Sathyanarayanan (Lexington, Mass.), John Kulman (Belmont, Mass.), Douglas E. Williams (Boston), Leonid A. Gaydukov (Tewksbury, Mass.), Ke Xu (Belmont, Mass.) and Shelly Martin (Stoneham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are extracellular vesicles comprising an immunomodulating component. Also provided are methods for producing the extracellular vesicles and methods for using the extracellul...