ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,278, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SISAF Ltd. (Guildford, Great Britain).
"Delivery system comprising silicon nanoparticles" was invented by Roghieh Suzanne Saffie-Siebert (Guildford, Great Britain), Paulina Malgorzata Baran-Rachwalska (Guildford, Great Britain), Flavia Maria Sutera (Guildford, Great Britain) and Nasrollah Torabi-Pour (Guildford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for the controlled release of a nucleic acid such as short interfering RNA or messenger RNA, comprising silicon nanoparticles, at least one amino acid, and at least one lipid, wherein the silicon nanoparticles comprise at least ...