US Patent Issued to Akouos on May 20 for "Compositions and methods for treating non-age-associated hearing impairment in a human subject" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,191, issued on May 20, was assigned to Akouos Inc. (Boston).

"Compositions and methods for treating non-age-associated hearing impairment in a human subject" was invented by Emmanuel John Simons (Boston) and Robert Ng (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions that include at least two different nucleic acid vectors, where each of the at least two different vectors includes a coding sequence that encodes a different portion of an otoferlin protein, and the use of these compositions to treat hearing loss in a subject."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2024, under Application No. 18/777,787.

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