US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, Arcturus Therapeutics on Jan. 27 for "Nucleic acid vaccine composition comprising a lipid formulation, and method of increasing the potency of nucleic acid vaccines" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,410, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Fort Detrick, Md.) and Arcturus Therapeutics Inc. (San Diego).

"Nucleic acid vaccine composition comprising a lipid formulation, and method of increasing the potency of nucleic acid vaccines" was invented by Jay W. Hooper (New Market, Md.), Eric M. Mucker (Thurmont, Md.) and Padmanabh Chivukula (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nucleic acid vaccine composition comprising one or more of a plasmid-based nucleic acid vaccine and immunotherapy, as well as a lipid formulation, is provided. In addition, the pr...