ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,766, issued on June 9.

"Isolated modified VP1 capsid protein of AAV5" was invented by Anna Nikolaevna Strelkova (g. Yaransk, Russia), Aleksandr Vladimirovich Karabelskii (g. Gatchina, Russia), Dmitrij Aleksandrovich Madera (Moscow), Mariya Pavlovna Perepelkina (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Elena Victorovna Iurlova (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Pavel Mikhailovich Gershovich (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Alexandr Vladimirovich Prokofyev (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and Dmitry Valentinovich Morozov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the fields of gene therapy and molecular biology. More specifica...