US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo on Sept. 16 for "Amphiphilic poly (amino acid), block copolyer using the amphiphilic poly (amino acid), and complex including the amphiphilic poly (amino acid) or the block copolymer and nucleic acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,891, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Japan).

"Amphiphilic poly (amino acid), block copolyer using the amphiphilic poly (amino acid), and complex including the amphiphilic poly (amino acid) or the block copolymer and nucleic acid" was invented by HyunJin Kim (Tokyo), Kanjiro Miyata (Tokyo) and Kazunori Kataoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amphiphilic poly(amino acid) for nucleic acid delivery, which is represented by the following formula (1):"

The patent was filed on Sept. 25, 2019, under Application No. 17/280,058.

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