ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,689, issued on July 29, was assigned to GigaMune Inc. (San Francisco).
"Engineered enveloped vectors and methods of use thereof" was invented by David Scott Johnson (San Francisco), Matthew James Spindler (San Francisco), Robert Edgar (Corte Madera, Calif.), Yoong Wearn Lim (Pacifica, Calif.) and Taylor Weller (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a novel, engineered enveloped vector that can be used for gene delivery. The engineered enveloped vector comprises an engineered envelope comprising: (a) a viral envelope protein and optionally, (b) a non-viral membrane-bound protein. The presen...