Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
71 patents granted to the 4 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Arbutus Biopharma Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
71
71 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
4
Against 8 in 2024 and 5 in 2023
Applications published
130
4 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its own name, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Pharmaceuticals20
Organic fine chemistry13
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION its own name
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
57 granted
81 publishedTekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation a former name
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
14 granted
20 publishedARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in CA
0 granted
25 publishedTekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in CA
0 granted
4 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 28, 2025 | 12,453,776 | Lipids and compositions for the delivery of therapeutics | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 12,357,705 | Negatively charged peg-lipid conjugates | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jul 8, 2025 | 12,350,383 | Cationic lipids containing silicon | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Mar 18, 2025 | 12,251,470 | Lipid nanoparticle formulations | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Oct 29, 2024 | 12,129,467 | Non-liposomal systems for nucleic acid delivery | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Sep 10, 2024 | 12,083,118 | Substituted 1,1′-biphenyl compounds, analogues thereof, and methods using same | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jul 23, 2024 | 12,043,833 | Targeted compositions | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jul 23, 2024 | 12,042,541 | Lipids and compositions for the delivery of therapeutics | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jul 2, 2024 | 12,023,383 | Lipid compositions | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jun 25, 2024 | 12,016,929 | Lipid formulations for delivery of therapeutic agents | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 11, 2025 | 2025/0281422 | CATIONIC LIPIDS CONTAINING SILICON | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jun 5, 2025 | 2025/0179496 | TARGETED COMPOSITIONS | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Mar 27, 2025 | 2025/0099594 | TARGETED COMPOSITIONS | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jan 30, 2025 | 2025/0034571 | NON-LIPOSOMAL SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Dec 26, 2024 | 2024/0424105 | NOVEL LIPIDS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTICS | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION · patent 12,453,776 granted from it |
| Nov 14, 2024 | 2024/0374595 | SUBSTITUTED 1,1'-BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS, ANALOGUES THEREOF, AND METHODS USING SAME | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Oct 3, 2024 | 2024/0327419 | SYNTHESIS OF SUBSTITUTED TRICYCLIC AMIDES AND ANALOGUES THEREOF | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Sep 26, 2024 | 2024/0316206 | NOVEL LIPID FORMULATIONS FOR DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | Pharmaceuticals | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jul 25, 2024 | 2024/0246964 | SUBSTITUTED 1-ARYL-1’-HETEROARYL COMPOUNDS, SUBSTITUTED 1,1’-BIHETEROARYL COMPOUNDS, AND METHODS USING SAME | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
| Jul 25, 2024 | 2024/0245784 | TARGETED NUCLEIC ACID CONJUGATE COMPOSITIONS | Organic fine chemistry | ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Pharmaceuticals 12 · Organic fine chemistry 7.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.