US Patent Issued to FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CLINICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY BASEL on May 12 for "Therapeutical tools and methods using temperature-sensitive receptors for treating blindness" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,965, issued on May 12, was assigned to FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (Basel, Switzerland) and INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CLINICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY BASEL (Basel, Switzerland).

"Therapeutical tools and methods using temperature-sensitive receptors for treating blindness" was invented by Dasha Nelidova (Basel, Switzerland) and Botond Roska (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventions relates to a method for vision restoration comprising the steps of expressing a temperature-sensitive transient receptor potential (TRP) channel having an extracellular tag in the retina of a subject and of co...