US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Nov. 11 for "Methods and compositions for engineering synthetic bioswitches for remote control of biological activity" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,050, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Methods and compositions for engineering synthetic bioswitches for remote control of biological activity" was invented by Gabriel A. Kwong (Atlanta), Ian C. Miller (Atlanta) and Marielena Gamboa (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to compositions and methods for the design of remote controlled biological systems, and more specifically to synthetic bioswitches that provide the ability to non-invasively and remotely control the function and activity of live cells, such as for example and not limitat...