US Patent Issued to The Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin on Jan. 20 for "Retinal promoter and uses thereof" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,883, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin (Dublin).

"Retinal promoter and uses thereof" was invented by Naomi Chadderton (Dublin), Gwenyth Jane Farrar (Dublin), Killian Hanlon (Dublin), Paul F. Kenna (Dublin), Arpad Palfi (Dublin) and Sophia Millington Ward (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a promoter for driving expression in the retina. The promoter sequence comprises at least NEFH promoter conserved region A and optionally one or more of NEFH conserved regions D, F, D1, K, B, C and E. Also disclosed ar...