US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Research Institute, The Sydney Children's Hospital Network (Randwick and Westmead) (Incorporating the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children on April 29 for "AAV capsid polynucleotides and polypeptides and virions containing the same" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,457, issued on April 29, was assigned to Children's Medical Research Institute (Westmead, Australia) and The Sydney Children's Hospital Network (Randwick and Westmead) (Incorporating the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (Westmead, Australia).

"AAV capsid polynucleotides and polypeptides and virions containing the same" was invented by Claus Hallwirth (Parramatta, Australia) and Ian Alexander (Pennant Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to polypeptides derived from marsupial adeno-associated vims (AAV). The disclosure is also related to nucleic acid molecules encoding the polype...