US Patent Issued to Orna Therapeutics on Aug. 12 for "Lipid nanoparticle compositions for delivering circular polynucleotides" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,741, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Orna Therapeutics Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Lipid nanoparticle compositions for delivering circular polynucleotides" was invented by Allen T. Horhota (Cambridge, Mass.), Junghoon Yang (Cambridge, Mass.), Kevin Kauffman (Newton, Mass.), Thomas Barnes (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert Alexander Wesselhoeft (Cambridge, Mass.), Amy M. Becker (Cambridge, Mass.) and Gregory Motz (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are novel lipids that can be used in combination with other lipid components, such as helper lipids, structural lipids, and cholesterols, to form lipid nanoparticles ...