US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Sept. 16 for "Engineering virus-like nanocarriers for biomolecule delivery" (Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,837, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Engineering virus-like nanocarriers for biomolecule delivery" was invented by Jorg Philip Votteler (Murray, Utah), Wesley I. Sundquist (Salt Lake City) and Neil P. King (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are modified capsid proteins comprising a capsid forming protein, a membrane binding element and an ESCRT-recruiting element, wherein at least one of the membrane binding element and the ESCRT-recruiting element is heterologous to the capsid forming protein. Disclosed are capsids comprising a plurality of modified...