US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on Aug. 26 for "Lentiviral-based vectors and related systems and methods for eukaryotic gene editing" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,182, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Lentiviral-based vectors and related systems and methods for eukaryotic gene editing" was invented by Baisong Lu (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Anthony Atala (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions, systems, and methods useful for effecting gene editing in eukaryotic cells. Compositions include plasmids that encode one or more viral fusion proteins in which one or more viral proteins are fused with an aptamer-binding protein. Compositions also include plasmids that encode a non-viral nucleic acid seq...