US Patent Issued to G TECH BIO on June 3 for "Compositions and methods for treating viral infections" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,714, issued on June 3, was assigned to G TECH BIO LLC (Los Angeles).

"Compositions and methods for treating viral infections" was invented by Serhat Gumrukcu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods and compositions utilizing recombinant nucleic acid constructs or a replication incompetent virus-like particle encoding a chemokine, cytokine, or apoptosis inducing protein (e.g. Caspase 9 (Casp9)), or other toxins in a form which can only be transcribed in the presence of a viral polymerase. These methods can be adapted to target many viral infections and reduce or eliminate viral load, and provide a fu...