US Patent Issued to Veritas In Silico on Oct. 7 for "Method for screening compound for controlling RNA function" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,358, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Veritas In Silico Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method for screening compound for controlling RNA function" was invented by Shingo Nakamura (Tokyo), Ling Jin (Tokyo), Amiu Shino (Tokyo) and Takashi Kamimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for screening for a compound capable of modulating gene expression by calculating an existence probability of a local secondary structure that may exist in a target RNA sequence; selecting a local secondary structure with the desired existence probability; preparing a screening probe corresponding to the selected local secondary structure; and screening for the ...