ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,723, issued on March 24, was assigned to GENETHON (Evry Courcouronnes, France), UNIVERSITE D'EVRY-VAL-D'ESSONNE (Evry Courcouronnes, France) and Inserm (Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale) (Paris).

"Polynucleotides encoding a human FKRP protein" was invented by Isabelle Richard (Corbeil-Essonnes, France), Evelyne Gicquel-Zouida (Vert-le-Petit, France) and William Lostal (Savigny sur Orge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns synthetic polynucleotides encoding a human fukutin-related protein (FKRP) wherein the synthetic polynucleotides contain at least a mutation avoiding supplem...