ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,567, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rampart Bioscience Inc. (Monrovia, Calif.).

"Non-immunogenic circular, non-viral DNA vectors" was invented by Jeffrey S. Bartlett (Colombus, Ohio) and Ming Yan (Encino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to circular, non-viral DNA vectors, compositions including one or more of the disclosed vectors, and methods for delivering and/or expressing one or more therapeutic genes (e.g., proteins) in mammals, e.g., human patients. In some embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to circular, non-viral DNA vectors, such as circular non-viral DNA vectors including...