ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,313, issued on May 13, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods for detecting AAV" was invented by Xiaoying Jin (Cambridge, Mass.), Catherine O'Riordan (Cambridge, Mass.), Lin Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kate Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for determining the serotype of a virus particle and/or or determining the heterogeneity of a virus particle (e.g., an AAV particle). In other embodiments, the invention provides methods to determine the heterogeneity of AAV particles. In some aspects, the invention provides viral particles (e.g., rAAV particles) with improved sta...