US Patent Issued to Ricoh, SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Particle containing lipid nanoparticles and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,223, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Particle containing lipid nanoparticles and method for producing same" was invented by Tatsuru Moritani (Kanagawa, Japan), Satomi Onoue (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hideyuki Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle includes at least one or more kinds of substrate and lipid nanoparticles. The lipid nanoparticles are dispersed in the substrate and contain a physiologically active substance. The lipid nanoparticles are one or more kinds selected from liposomes, lipid emulsions, and solid lipid nano...