ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,924, issued on June 3, was assigned to uniQure IP B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Liver-specific viral promoters and methods of using the same" was invented by Jacek Lubelski (Amsterdam), David Johannes Francois Du Plessis (Amsterdam), Ying Pui Liu (Amsterdam), Olivier Ter Brake (Amsterdam), Juan Manuel Iglesias Gonzalez (Lothian, Great Britain), Ross Fraser (Lothian, Great Britain) and Michael Roberts (Lothian, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to promoters that function specifically or preferentially in the liver. These promoters are capable of enhancing liver-specific expression of genes. The invention a...