US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on July 1 for "Lipid-polymer based complexation and delivery of nucleic acids" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,693, issued on July 1, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Lipid-polymer based complexation and delivery of nucleic acids" was invented by Sankaran Thayumanavan (Amherst, Mass.) and Kingshuk Dutta (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel polymers, crosslinked polymer-nucleic acid complexes, lipid-polymer-nucleic acid-based complexation and nanoassemblies, and nanoassembly-based intracellular delivery of nucleic acids and controlled release thereof upon degradation of the nanoassemblies in response to specific microenvironment in the cell, and compositions and methods of...