US Patent Issued to ModernaTX on March 4 for "Modified messenger RNA comprising functional RNA elements" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,063, issued on March 4, was assigned to ModernaTX Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Modified messenger RNA comprising functional RNA elements" was invented by Melissa J. Moore (Cambridge, Mass.), Caroline Kohrer (Cambridge, Mass.), Ruchi Jain (Cambridge, Mass.) and Vladimir Presnyak (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides messenger RNAs (mRNAs) having chemical and/or structural modifications, including RNA elements and/or modified nucleotides, which provide a desired translational regulatory activity to the mRNA."

The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2022, under Application No. 17/933,500.

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