US Patent Issued to AVIDITY BIOSCIENCES on Dec. 16 for "Nucleic acid compositions and methods of multi-exon skipping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,615, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AVIDITY BIOSCIENCES INC. (San Diego).

"Nucleic acid compositions and methods of multi-exon skipping" was invented by Beatrice Diana Darimont (San Diego), Yunyu Shi (La Jolla, Calif.), Michael Caramian Cochran (La Jolla, Calif.) and Andrew John Geall (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are oligonucleotide conjugates and pharmaceutical compositions for inducing multi-exon skipping. In some instances, also disclosed herein are methods of treating a muscular dystrophy, including treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy or Becker muscular dystrophy."

The patent was filed o...