ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,369, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).
"Serial filtration to generate small cholesterol-containing liposomes" was invented by Stephen Morton (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zach Scott (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and systems for producing liposomes by filtration. The methods include passing a heated lipid suspension through a filter assembly comprising two or more filters connected in series, wherein an orifice is disposed between adjacent filters. The methods and systems can produce liposomes having an average diameter that is less than half t...