ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,565, issued on May 6, was assigned to VOYAGER THERAPEUTICS INC. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Tau binding compounds" was invented by Wencheng Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Todd Carter (Winchester, Mass.), Ishan Sanjeev Shah (Andover, Mass.), Christopher Joseph Murray (Poleglass, Ireland), James Bernard McClory (Ballynaskeagh, Ireland) and Dinah Wen-Yee Sah (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides anti-tau antibodies and vectorization thereof (e.g., into AAV particles). Also provided are methods of using anti-tau antibodies and/or AAV particles for prevention, treatment, and/or diagnosis of neurological indica...