US Patent Issued to HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE on Nov. 18 for "Chemigenetic voltage indicators" (Virginia, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,345, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE (Chevy Chase, Md.).

"Chemigenetic voltage indicators" was invented by Eric R. Schreiter (Leesburg, Va.), Luke D. Lavis (Ashburn, Va.) and Ahmed Abdelfattah (Barrington, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are a voltage indicator and a method of measuring voltage. The voltage indicator includes a membrane-localized voltage-sensitive protein coupled to a capture protein. The method of measuring voltage includes administering a voltage indicator including a membrane-localized voltage-sensitive protein coupled to a capture protein, and determining cha...