US Patent Issued to AKOUOS on July 7 for "Compositions and methods for treating non-age-associated hearing impairment in a human subject" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,116, issued on July 7, was assigned to AKOUOS INC. (Indianapolis).

"Compositions and methods for treating non-age-associated hearing impairment in a human subject" was invented by Emmanuel John Simons (Brookline, Mass.), Robert Ng (Newton, Mass.), Ellen Reisinger (DuBlingen, Germany), Hanan Al-Moyed (Gottingen, Germany) and Sebastian Kugler (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions that include at least two different nucleic acid vectors, where each of the at least two different vectors includes a coding sequence that encodes a different portion of an otoferlin protein, and the use of these co...