US Patent Issued to Universitat Bern, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover on Dec. 30 for "AAV vector variants for ocular gene delivery" (Swiss, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,705, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Universitat Bern (Bern, Switzerland) and Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Hannover, Germany).

"AAV vector variants for ocular gene delivery" was invented by Sonja Kleinlogel (Bern, Switzerland), Anand David (Mumbai, India) and Hildegard Buning (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to adeno-associated virus capsid polypeptide sequences and their use in therapeutic transgene delivery to the eye and potentially other tissues."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/755,434.

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