US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on July 15 for "Transgene cassettes designed to express a human MECP2 gene" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,219, issued on July 15, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Transgene cassettes designed to express a human MECP2 gene" was invented by Steven J. Gray (Southlake, Texas) and Sarah Sinnett (Farmers Branch, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases and genetic disorders linked to MeCP2 loss and/or misfunction, including RETT syndrome. The methods and compositions of the present disclosure comprise rAAV vectors and rAAV viral vectors comprising transgene nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleic acid seq...