US Patent Issued to Takeda Pharmaceutical on Nov. 25 for "Cationic lipid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,791, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cationic lipid" was invented by Satoru Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshimasa Omori (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Mineno (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Sawai (Kanagawa, Japan), Nozomu Kakimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasutaka Hoashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a technique capable of transferring an active ingredient, particularly, a nucleic acid, to a cell with excellent efficiency and a cationic lipid for use in this technique, etc. The cationic lipid of the present invention is a compound represented b...