US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 20 for "Immunostimulatory compositions and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,566, issued on May 20, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Immunostimulatory compositions and methods of use thereof" was invented by Darrell Irvine (Arlington, Mass.) and Haipeng Liu (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lipid conjugates for enhanced delivery of cargo to the lymph nodes are disclosed. The lipid conjugates typically include three domains: a lipophilic domain that binds to albumin, a polar block domain, and a cargo such as a molecular adjuvant or immunostimulatory compound (such as an oligonucleotide) or antigenic peptide. Depending on the cargo, the length and compositio...