US Patent Issued to Stellular Bio on Dec. 16 for "Compositions for drug delivery and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,315, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Stellular Bio Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Compositions for drug delivery and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jonathan N. Thon (Cambridge, Mass.), Brad Dykstra (Cambridge, Mass.), Brenden William Smith (Cambridge, Mass.), Christian Gerald Peters (Cambridge, Mass.) and Thomas Carl Schulz (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing megakaryocytes and platelets derived from inducible pluripotent stem cells are provided. Such megakaryocytes or platelets can be genetically modified to comprise a nucleic acid molecule encoding a therapeutic agent. The present disclosur...