US Patent Issued to LONZA SALES on March 25 for "Preparation of therapeutic exosomes using membrane proteins" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,313, issued on March 25, was assigned to LONZA SALES AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Preparation of therapeutic exosomes using membrane proteins" was invented by Kevin P. Dooley (Boston), Rane A. Harrison (Belmont, Mass.), Russell E. McConnell (Brighton, Mass.), Ke Xu (Sudbury, Mass.), Damian J. Houde (Plymouth, Mass.), Nikki Ross (Cambridge, Mass.), Sonya Haupt (Cambridge, Mass.), John D. Kulman (Belmont, Mass.) and Douglas E. Williams (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of preparing a therapeutic exosome using a protein newly-identified to be enriched on the surface of exosomes. Specifically, ...