ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,769, issued on July 22, was assigned to AVIDITY BIOSCIENCES INC. (San Diego).

"Nucleic acid-polypeptide compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Andrew John Geall (Carlsbad, Calif.), Venkata Ramana Doppalapudi (San Diego), Joel Daniel Arias (San Diego), David Sai-Ho Chu (San Diego), Michael Caramian Cochran (La Jolla, Calif.), Rob Burke (Encinitas, Calif.), Philip Kovach (San Diego) and Barbora Malecova (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions and pharmaceutical formulations that comprise a binding moiety conjugated to a modified polynucleic acid molecule and a polymer. Also described herein i...