US Patent Issued to Allen Institute on Aug. 11 for "Artificial expression constructs for selectively modulating gene expression in excitatory cortical neurons" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,873, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Allen Institute (Seattle).

"Artificial expression constructs for selectively modulating gene expression in excitatory cortical neurons" was invented by Lucas T. Graybuck (Seattle), Bosiljka Tasic (Seattle), Tanya Daigle (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Jonathan Ting (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Hongkui Zeng (Seattle), Brian Edward Kalmbach (Poulsbo, Wash.), John K. Mich (Seattle), Erik Hess (Issaquah, Wash.), Edward Sebastian Lein (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Boaz P. Levi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial expression constructs for selectively modulating gene expression in selected centra...