US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on June 3 for "Modified capsid proteins for enhanced delivery of parvovirus vectors" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,715, issued on June 3, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Modified capsid proteins for enhanced delivery of parvovirus vectors" was invented by Richard Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Jayme Warischalk (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to modified parvovirus capsid proteins with enhanced transduction efficiency, viral vectors comprising the same, and methods of using the same for delivery of nucleic acids to a cell or a subject."

The patent was filed on Aug. 20, 2021, under Application No. 17/407,716.

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