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. 2025 Jan 17;19(4):4011–4038. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c09566

Table 4. Notable Patent Application Publications in the Field of Nano-DDSs in Recent Years.

Patent Number Publication Year Patent Assignee Title Details
WO2023237788 2023 Cellvie (Switzerland) Mitochondria as a targeted delivery platform A mitochondrion comprising payloads including nucleic acids, polypeptides, drugs or a combination thereof, electrostatically attached to the outer membrane of the mitochondrion, to provide a drug delivery platform of notable efficiency
WO2020061367 2020 ModernaTX (USA) Compounds and compositions for intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents Preparation of novel lipids and their NP compositions useful in delivery of therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatments such as RNA, with improved endosomal escape and sustained efficiency and safety
WO2023144127 2023 AGS Therapeutics (France) Extracellular vesicles from microalgae, their biodistribution upon administration, and uses DDSs containing extracellular vesicles from microalgae loaded with bioactive cargo, administered by a variety of routes, with applications as therapeutics, including as vaccines, as anticancer therapeutics, and as therapeutics for psychiatric diseases
US20120040397 2012 Cornell University (USA) Photo-cross-linked nucleic acid hydrogels Methods and compositions for producing hydrogel nucleic acid structures using photo-cross-linking, and using these hydrogels for cell-free protein production, and for encapsulating and delivering compounds
WO2013086373 2013 Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (USA) Lipids for the delivery of nucleic acids Novel cationic lipids that can be used in combination with other lipid components such as cholesterol and PEG-lipids to form lipid NPs with oligonucleotides, to facilitate the cellular uptake and endosomal escape, and to knockdown target mRNA
WO2021077066; WO2021077067 2021 University of Pennsylvania (USA) Lipid nanoparticles and formulations thereof for CAR mRNA delivery Lipid NPs for delivery of mRNAs encoding chimeric antigenic receptor (CAR), nucleic acid, and/or therapeutic agents to selected target cells
WO2011076807 2011 Novartis (Switzerland) Preparation of cationic and stealth lipids and compositions for drug delivery Compositions comprising cationic lipids, stealth lipids, and helper lipids and optimization protocols for delivery of therapeutically effective amounts of active agents to liver, tumors, and/or other cells or tissues
WO2021030776 2021 Codiak Biosciences (USA) Extracellular vesicle-antisense oligonucleotide constructs targeting STAT6 and use for treating disease Exosomes, comprising an antisense oligonucleotide with a contiguous nucleotide sequence complementary to a nucleic acid sequence within a STAT6 transcript, as well as methods for producing the exosomes and using them to treat and/or prevent diseases
US20060040286 2006 Nanosphere (USA) Utilizing reporter oligonucleotides as bio-barcodes for detection of target analytes and diagnostic uses Screening methods and kits for detecting the presence or absence of one or more target analytes, e.g., proteins, such as antibodies, nucleic acids, or other compounds in a sample; in particular, reporter oligonucleotides are used as biochemical barcodes for detecting multiple protein structures in a solution
WO2018227012 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Polymer–lipid materials for delivery of nucleic acids NPs comprising a conjugated polyethylenimine polymer (conjugated lipomer) and a lipid–PEG conjugate, useful for the delivery of active agents, for the treatment of disease
WO2022159855 2022 Johns Hopkins University (USA) Photo-cross-linked bioreducible polymeric nanoparticles for enhanced RNA delivery Photo-cross-linked bioreducible NPs for stable siRNA encapsulation in high serum conditions, shielded surface charge, efficient intracellular trafficking, and triggered cytosolic RNA release, allowing robust siRNA-mediated knockdown in cancer cells and systemic siRNA delivery to tumors in lungs
WO2021119402 2021 Harvard College (USA) Compositions and methods for light-directed biomolecular barcoding Compositions and methods for nucleic acid barcoding that can be used to linearly, combinatorially, or spatially barcode a plurality of targets in a sample, as well as a device for use in a barcoding method comprising a light source and a sample holder
WO2023092040 2023 Northwestern University (USA) Spherical nucleic acids for cgas-sting and stat3 pathway modulation for the immunotherapeutic treatment of cancer Spherical nucleic acids: nanostructures comprising a NP core and a shell of oligonucleotides attached to the external surface of the NP core, the oligonucleotide shell comprising a double-stranded or single-stranded stem–loop DNA oligonucleotide activating cyclic GMP–AMP synthase
WO2012110636 2012 Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (Spain) Carrier peptides for cell delivery Delivery of molecules into cells, using peptide binding proteins from the cell microtubule motor complex, preferably dynein-binding peptides, as carrier/delivery peptides; or functionalized structures, such as NPs, linked to said peptides, for use in diagnosis, therapy, and pharmacology
WO2005116226 2005 Midatech; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain) Magnetic nanoparticles comprising metals and semiconductor atoms conjugated to siRNA or microRNA for diagnosis and therapy of diseases Magnetic NPs having a core comprising metals and semiconductor atoms conjugated to siRNA or microRNA for diagnosis and therapy of diseases, for targeted transcriptional gene silencing, for targeted mRNA degradation, for imaging mRNA, as a tool in functional genomics