US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 27 for "Methods and compositions for unsilencing imprinted genes" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,947, issued on May 27, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for unsilencing imprinted genes" was invented by Benjamin D. Philpot (Durham, N.C.), Kiran Ramesh Bettadapur (Bengaluru, India), Hyeong-Min Lee (Cordova, Tenn.) and Hanna Vihma (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and compositions for inducing expression of Ube3a in a cell and treating Angelman syndrome in a subject."

The patent was filed on July 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/625,604.

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