US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong on Dec. 9 for "Engineered cry proteins for delivery of therapeutics" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,227, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, China).

"Engineered cry proteins for delivery of therapeutics" was invented by Michael Chan (Kowloon, China), Marianne Lee (Kowloon, China) and Zaofeng Yang (Shatin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are novel recombinant proteins that are capable of self-crystallization and exhibit desirable physical properties such as enhanced cellular uptake or and endoso-mal escape. Polynucleotides encoding the recombinant proteins as well as methods of making and using such proteins are also described."

The patent was filed on April 15, 2020, under Ap...