US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on Dec. 30 for "Lipidated poly(amino acid) nanostructures" (Missouri, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,552, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Lipidated poly(amino acid) nanostructures" was invented by Josiah Smith (Hartford, Conn.) and Bret Ulery (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to novel lipidated poly(amino acid)s (LPAAs). The present disclosure is further related to processes for preparing such novel lipidated poly(amino acid)s (LPAAs) and for preparing novel lipidated poly(amino acid)s nanoparticles (LPAANPs). Additionally, the present disclosure relates to processes for utilizing lipidated poly(amino acid)s (LPAAs) that ar...