US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on July 15 for "Capsid-modified rAAV vector compositions and methods therefor" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,954, issued on July 15, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Capsid-modified rAAV vector compositions and methods therefor" was invented by Arun Srivastava (Gainesville, Fla.), George Vladimirovich Aslanidi (Gainesville, Fla.), Sergei Zolotukhin (Gainesville, Fla.), Mavis Agbandje-McKenna (Gainesville, Fla.), Kim M. Van Vliet (Gainesville, Fla.), Li Zhong (Gainesville, Fla.) and Lakshmanan Govindasamy (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are capsid-modified rAAV expression vectors, as well as infectious virions, compositions, and pharmaceutical formulations contai...