ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,722, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Allen Insitute (Seattle).

"Artificial expression constructs for selectively modulating gene expression in selected neuronal cell populations" was invented by Jonathan Ting (Seattle), Boaz P. Levi (Seattle), Bosiljka Tasic (Seattle), John K. Mich (Seattle), Erik Hess (Seattle), Edward Sebastian Lein (Seattle), Lucas T. Graybuck (Seattle), Tanya Daigle (Seattle) and Hongkui Zeng (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial expression constructs for selectively modulating gene expression in selected central nervous system cell types are described. The artificial expression constructs can be ...