US Patent Issued to The Medical College of Wisconsin on Feb. 3 for "Lentiviral vector transfer plasmid and methods of use" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,336, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc. (Milwaukee).

"Lentiviral vector transfer plasmid and methods of use" was invented by Jeffrey A. Medin (Shorewood, Wis.), William M. McKillop (Wauwatosa, Wis.) and Kristy J. Gargulak (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an improved lentiviral backbone for use in gene therapy."

The patent was filed on May 25, 2021, under Application No. 18/000,025.

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