US Patent Issued to Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital on Aug. 12 for "Increasing tissue specific gene delivery by capsid modification" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,062, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio).

"Increasing tissue specific gene delivery by capsid modification" was invented by Scott Allen Loiler (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modified capsid proteins, isolated polynucleotides, methods for the preparation of modified capsid proteins, recombinant viral particles, recombinant expression systems for the generation of modified viral particles, and methods of gene editing and regulation are provided herein."

The patent was filed on March 14, 2019, under Application No. 16/980,821.

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