US Patent Issued to Generation Bio on March 17 for "Synthetic production of single-stranded adeno associated viral DNA vectors" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,573, issued on March 17, was assigned to Generation Bio Co. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Synthetic production of single-stranded adeno associated viral DNA vectors" was invented by Ozan Alkan (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert Michael Kotin (Cambridge, Mass.), Douglas Anthony Kerr (Cambridge, Mass.), Russell Monds (Cambridge, Mass.), Carolyn Pelletier (Cambridge, Mass.) and Matthew Stanton (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses methods for synthetic production and cell-free synthesis of single stranded adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors, for delivery and expression of a transgene in host cells. The pres...