US Patent Issued to LONZA WALKERSVILLE on Aug. 26 for "Methods and constructs for transient production of lentiviral vector" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,404, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LONZA WALKERSVILLE INC. (Walkersville, Md.).

"Methods and constructs for transient production of lentiviral vector" was invented by Young Shin (Walkersville, Md.) and Anandita Seth (Walkersville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for producing lentiviral vectors using mammalian cells. Specifically, the methods utilize three plasmids, rather than four, to provide the required packaging elements and transfer vector to a cell, allowing for the production of a large number of lentiviral vectors in mammalian cells, including suspension-based cells. These me...