US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on June 24 for "Viral vectors exhibiting improved gene delivery properties" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,267, issued on June 24, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

"Viral vectors exhibiting improved gene delivery properties" was invented by George M. Church (Brookline, Mass.), Eric Kelsic (Cambridge, Mass.), Pierce Ogden (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sam Sinai (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein provides viral capsid polypeptides bearing mutations that alters tissue tropism of a virus comprising the viral capsid polypeptide. In various embodiments, tissue tropisim to the heart, kidney, liver, lung, spleen, or blood is altered."

The patent was filed on May 8, 2019, under Appli...