ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,055, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nitto Denko Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Compositions and methods for nanoparticle lyophile forms" was invented by Roger Adami (Carlsbad, Calif.), Yuwei Wang (Oceanside, Calif.), Haiqing Yin (San Marcos, Calif.), Liping Wang (Carlsbad, Calif.), Dong Liu (Irvine, Calif.) and Wenbin Ying (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions for making a solid lyophile of one or more nucleic acid active agents, which can be reconstituted as a drug product. The composition can include an aqueous suspension of lipid nanoparticles in a pharmaceutically acceptable solution, wherein the lipid nanoparticles e...