US Patent Issued to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto on Feb. 3 for "Supramolecular ionizable lipid molecules with heteroatomic tuning for nucleic acid delivery" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,279, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto).

"Supramolecular ionizable lipid molecules with heteroatomic tuning for nucleic acid delivery" was invented by Julien Couture-Senecal (Toronto), Grayson Tilstra (Toronto) and Omar Fizal Khan (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to ionizable lipids that include ester functional groups. The present application further relates to compositions and uses thereof for the delivery of agents such as nucleic acids and drugs."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2024, under Application No. 18/621,526.

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