US Patent Issued to State of Israel, Israel Institute for Biological Research on Dec. 9 for "Methods for identifying anti clostridial neurotoxin compounds" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,036, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to State of Israel, Israel Institute for Biological Research (Ness-Ziona, Israel).

"Methods for identifying anti clostridial neurotoxin compounds" was invented by Alon Ben David (Ramat Yishay, Israel), Ada Barnea (Holon, Israel) and Ran Zichel (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently claimed subject matter concerns methods and kits for identifying agents that reduce binding of a clostridial neurotoxin to synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2 (SV2)."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/758,379.

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