US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Sept. 9 for "Modular extracellular sensor architecture for regulating genes" (Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,417, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Modular extracellular sensor architecture for regulating genes" was invented by Joshua N. Leonard (Wilmette, Ill.) and Kelly A. Schwarz (Mooresville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, components of systems, and methods for sensing extracellular ligands and/or modulating expression of an endogenous or exogenous gene in a cell. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise or utilize first and second exogenous extracellular sensors and/or nucleic acid sequences encoding the first and second exogenous extracellu...