US Patent Issued to ModernaTX on June 10 for "Compounds and compositions for intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,859, issued on June 10, was assigned to ModernaTX Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compounds and compositions for intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents" was invented by Kerry E. Benenato (Sudbury, Mass.), Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe (Harvard, Mass.) and Mark Cornebise (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure features novel lipids and compositions involving the same. Nanoparticle compositions include a novel lipid as well as additional lipids such as phospholipids, structural lipids, and PEG lipids. Nanoparticle compositions further including therapeutic and/or prophylactics such as RNA are useful in th...