US Patent Issued to Massachuetts Institute of Technology on July 8 for "Cell body targeted sensors" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,615, issued on July 8, was assigned to Massachuetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Cell body targeted sensors" was invented by Or A. Shemesh (Cambridge, Mass.), Changyang Linghu (Cambridge, Mass.), Kiryl D. Piatkevich (Cambridge, Mass.), Edward S. Boyden (Cambridge, Mass.) and Won Min Park (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention, in some aspects, relates to polypeptide molecules and their encoding nucleic acid molecules and use of such molecules to direct and localize sensor molecules in the soma of cells in which they are expressed. Compositions of the invention may be delivered to cells and subje...