US Patent Issued to Akouos on Aug. 11 for "Methods of treating hearing loss using a secreted target protein" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,874, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Akouos Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Methods of treating hearing loss using a secreted target protein" was invented by Emmanuel J. Simons (Brookline, Mass.), Robert Ng (Newton, Mass.), Danielle R. Lenz (Brookline, Mass.) and Hao Chiang (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions that include a single nucleic acid vector or two different nucleic acid vectors, and the use of these compositions to treat hearing loss in a subject."

The patent was filed on July 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/628,266.

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