US Patent Issued to National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Osaka University on July 1 for "Chimeric double-stranded nucleic acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,841, issued on July 1, was assigned to National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Tokyo) and Osaka University (Osaka, Japan).

"Chimeric double-stranded nucleic acid" was invented by Takanori Yokota (Tokyo), Kazutaka Nishina (Tokyo), Satoshi Obika (Osaka, Japan) and Hidehiro Mizusawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing the level of a transcription product in a cell comprising contacting with the cell a composition comprising a double-stranded nucleic acid complex comprising a first nucleic acid strand annealed to a second nucleic acid strand, wherein: (i) the first nucleic acid strand hy...